Ledditors griefing over internet “censorship” and muh freeze peach principles that were apparently violated when effective, direct measures were used to combat fascism.
I don’t think we should ever celebrate people being deplatformed…If the content is illegal pursue legal means to punish the posters…But let’s say they win, and they get the domain blocked everywhere. They’ll just launch a new domain, just like all the pirate streaming sites do.
Are you implying you shouldn’t try to do anything because the fascists will (deterministically) win? Hence why the people trying to shut them down went straight to the ISPs because they know they can win the ISPs over on moral grounds?
[…] you have to decide if the internet is a human right or not. If it is, it must be for everyone, or it is for no one. As soon as we make exceptions to basic rights, those rights get eroded for everyone. Because people in power will bend the exceptions to political expediency.
Fascists don’t deserve basic rights.
It really is hard to be enthusiastic about this when we know damn well that the right wants to censor queer people on the internet and that it very realistically could be used as part of legal justification to do so. They’re already working on it through a few avenues: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety
Of course, they’d most likely find a way to do this with or without KF being taken down by ISP or court order, but how the hell am I supposed to find that reassuring?