It frustrates and disappoints me to see hacks like this happen out of some sense of moral superiority.
For whatever "fascists" this harms, it will harm significantly more innocent people.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
For whatever "fascists" this harms, it will harm significantly more innocent people.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Even if someone was a self declared fascist, that is still not justification.
> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)
No need for quotes, bruh.
You can disagree with someone and still think they have rights.
Why should anyone should suffer consequences for threats of harm online? You agree that someone should be allowed to threaten, harass, intimidate and harm someone else through speech online?
Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences of said speech.
As far as I see it, Epik's hack is a consequence of the speech they allow. No need for government, constitution and laws to see the cause and effect here.
> As far as I see it, Epik's hack is a consequence of the speech they allow.
That's a scary logic and it's the kind of logic that harms societies. Most violent leaders have used this style of justification for their actions.
We can not fight uncivility with uncivility. Doing so only makes the situation worse.
And Epik continued to host sites that were taken offline specifically for those reasons.
That's your cognitive dissonance.
We can not fight uncivility with uncivility. Doing so only makes the situation worse.
Sounds like moral panic to me. Do you not think neo-nazis are real or something? Serious question.
Paradox of Tolerance.
https://i.imgur.com/ve1VDvK_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra...
> Doing so only makes the situation worse.
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
It is now worse since innocent users are involved in this leak.
Heh.
Pay attention...
They specifically cater, not just host, but CATER to those who are unable to host elsewhere due to their content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)
> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]
Read what the CEO has to say about jewish people [0]
[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rob-monster-epik-gab-neo-nazi...