> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design
What does "lawless by design" mean?
What does "lawless by design" mean?
It's a euphemism for sites that are not censored and still allow free speech. Matthew Prince used to support freedom of speech but he's abandoned that concept a while back.
That is pretty obviously 'lawless by design'.
How is this implemented?
By throwing up their hands and claiming that it's too hard to implement.
8ch is not running a highly sophisticated software stack. (Quite honestly, their code [1] is pretty terrible -- it's a bunch of frameworkless, hacked-together PHP.) Nothing about their setup is especially elaborate or unusual; at best, "we can't ban content" is an admission of their incompetence.
Sure I imagine they could go db diving and ban content manually, but they don't want to.