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Kiwi Farms went into the realm of swatting people and trying to get people to kill themselves (with one or two successes). Of course that being said I fail to
by api 4y ago
Kiwi Farms went into the realm of swatting people and trying to get people to kill themselves (with one or two successes).
Of course that being said I fail to understand why more normal remedies couldn’t apply there. Swatting is a felony and hounding someone to suicide is at least very civilly actionable. Why did Cloudflare need to be the police here when regular police or the “Sandy Hook solution” seemed warranted?
- OrangeMonkey 4y agoRe speech - The government typically does not fare well when they try to restrict a persons speech. Re Swatting - because there was no proof. The forums actually had a pretty hard policy about anything that appeared to be swatting related and banned users immediately for it. With the forums taking a hard stance against swatting, with proof, why would they have been found liable. So because nothing was provable or illegal, the internet begged a corporation to remove its fire protection service. Once it was done, to the surprise of literally noone, someone burned it down. I have trouble reconciling when the community supports corporations policing speech and also complains about it. In my opinion, its based on whether the people like the speech or not. It makes me concerned that the concept of free speech, at least that which I grew up with on the early internet, is no more.
- pvg 4y agoPlease don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- OrangeMonkey 4y agoFair. I've edited the comment. Let me know if you think its still an issue. Thanks.
- TimedToasts 4y ago> Why did Cloudflare need to be the police here when regular police or the “Sandy Hook solution” seemed warranted? Because it was fiction.