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by cowtools 4y ago
KF is certainly quite hateful, racist, spiteful, etc. I just don't like when arguments devolve into unplugging each other the internet.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think the goal of KF is to de-platform individuals, but merely to discredit them by publishing demeaning information and rumors about them. So they are categorically different: one side is pro-free-speech, and the other side is
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by cowtools 4y ago
This is why it's unwise to ever post one's location online. It is truly pitiful, because this is ultimately what social media encourages. They encourage tagging posts by location, they rip the EXIF data from the images (which most
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Cloudflare isn’t censoring Kiwi Farms It is not really CF, so much as it's the collective action of many internet monopolies. The content they are hosting is legal to the extent of US law, and no one is allowing them to host it. &g
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by cowtools 4y ago
Doxxing and swatting has always been frowned upon, but it continues to happen regardless. So the idea that it can be curbed through social stigma and criminalization is clearly false. The technology for surveillance and publishing has only
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by cowtools 4y ago
I believe that free speech, as a doctrine, is an intrinsic good. It is that simple. I think the late Aaron Swartz describes my stance on free speech as a doctrine and moral principle: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becau
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by cowtools 4y ago
No one in this specific situation is being persecuted for their beliefs: The coordinator of the DDoS attack (Who I am apparently not allowed to say the name of or my comment will be instantly flagged after posting) is being persecuted for t
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by cowtools 4y ago
Anyone can SWAT anyone with enough personal information and a cell phone. You cannot stop swatting by taking down a forum like KF- because a swatting attack is trivial to execute, and can be falsely attributed to any party. If I started swa
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by cowtools 4y ago
The cheesecake factory has no meaningful ideological motivations, unless you include the advancement of poor dieting amongst Americans, which I suppose could be considered to be anti-american in a sense. Additionally, it's a retail sto
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by cowtools 4y ago
Free speech is more than just an amendment to the constitution. It is also a doctrine that knowledge and discussion should generally be free, and that people shouldn't be persecuted for their beliefs. It used to be that all forums had
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by cowtools 4y ago
You could call any politically-adjacent forum a "terrorist harasser" site. Is Wikileaks not a "terrorist harasser site" in the 9/11-era rhetoric?
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by cowtools 4y ago
If "go into hiding" means "not posting personally-identifiable information on the public internet", then that doesn't sound so bad. In fact, that's what I always do all the time on the internet, as should every
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by cowtools 4y ago
This is not a case of "good ideas" vs "better ideas", this is a case of DDoS: "inconvenient ideas and IP Bandwidth" vs "censorship and better IP bandwidth"
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by cowtools 4y ago
Since when is "doxxing" a crime? I'm told that the new york times has "doxxed" people on numerous occasions. Should they get taken down?
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by cowtools 4y ago
So you want to enforce restrictions on hate speech, but you have no clear boundary as to what "hate speech" really is?
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by cowtools 4y ago
The site is still up as an onion service. This is more than just cloudflare's DDoS protection at this point, they have no one to support their DNS registration or IP space, as their operator goes into detail here[0]: >[...] >Doma
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by cowtools 4y ago
signup confirm emails are not what i'm describing, because you need to establish and filter the initial offer that they send you via email itself, which is still prone to phishing. What I'm describing is a situation where users th
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think we ought to move email (or some future incarnation of email, like matrix) to a completely whitelist (opt-in to receive messages) basis.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't know what you want us to say. If you're worried about censorship, you shouldn't work with apple as proven time and time again. Apple users are the most willing to trade their freedom for convenience. We have no sway t
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by cowtools 4y ago
The linux-phone ecosystem seems to be doing alright just by porting applications from the rest of the ecosystem. It's a lot more usable than it was a year ago.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's not just about the cable, it's about the controller chip on either side of the cable, and the bandwidth (pcie, etc.) attached to the controller. You can't make a standard that always does everything while being afforable
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by cowtools 4y ago
What's regrettable isn't that twitter bans an ex-president, what's regrettable is that we've allowed corporations to capture the public square on the internet to the extent that they can de-facto ban the ex-president fro
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by cowtools 4y ago
There's always tor and other networks.
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by cowtools 4y ago
They seemingly can if they just stop posting every waking moment of their life on the internet so it can be scooped up and analyzed by kiwifarm trolls.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Is this referring to the "slate star codex" incident a couple years back?
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by cowtools 4y ago
If you are trying to hide from internet stalkers, why would you publicly post a picture of your hotel? As a society, I feel like we have normalized oversharing to the extent that young people don't have regard for their own personal sa
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by cowtools 4y ago
It might help the "victim" if they weren't constantly posting online and leaking their whereabouts. But hey, how else would they be able to solicit donations? When I grew up, people used to say that you should never post your
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by cowtools 4y ago
Well it seems to me like the kiwifarm posts demeaning information about this person who is co-ordinating the DDoS, like that they were a pornstar or something. So this campaign seems like a tactic to shut down the discussion of facts that a
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by cowtools 4y ago
>There is no government involved here though. See the parent comment I was replying to. We agreed on the statement that "Private companies should not be the de facto moderators of free speech". I just think it is weird to argue
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by cowtools 4y ago
Related, an interesting apology by KF's operator: https://web.archive.org/web/20220819014610/https://madatthei...

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