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> I’m not a fan of “think of the children“ arguments Yet you're making one. > the Internet cannot actually be a complete free for all Yet in many important w
by timschmidt 4mo ago
> I’m not a fan of “think of the children“ arguments
Yet you're making one.
> the Internet cannot actually be a complete free for all
Yet in many important ways, it is.
As much as publishers would like to shut down Scihub, it exists. The Pirate Bay famously persists. Nation states with entirely opposed legal systems connect and interoperate to at least some degree.
- GoblinSlayer 4mo agoNorth Korean Internet will solve ip4 address exhaustion.
- Forgeties79 4mo agoDude it’s CSAM what are we even doing here.
- timschmidt 4mo agoWhat's CSAM? All of Freenet? Doubtful. The OP said: "Extremely depraved things are not the only thing to use freedom of speech for, and freely speaking can result in all kinds of repressions." Which is objectively true. You're throwing reporters, political dissidents, whistleblowers, minority groups, and just regular people who don't appreciate the Stasi in with the child pornographers which some might take as an insult and offense. What kind of criminal does Phil Zimmermann look like to you? We had this argument already in the 90s.
- pessimizer 4mo agoScihub and The Pirate Bay are not at all anonymous, aggressively police for CSAM, and rely on reputation systems.