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Kiwi Farms: The Slippery Slope of Curating the Web

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Someday it could be this site that faces the same threat kiwi is facing right now because you will eventually say something lucas' ilk or whatever elites behind the scenes don't like then you'll understand too late.

Hacker News is part of the elite, so that will never happen. Just look at how VC and YC companies Uber and AirBnB have eroded workers' rights and zoning laws for elite profit. That's the secret with all of these companies; they claim that using computers means they needn't follow the laws. Look at how YouTube shows children things no television network ever would've been allowed to show them, for another example.

Most specifically, Hacker News, were its current peers to decide to cease to do business with it, can find other peers.

> That's the secret with all of these companies; they claim that using computers means they needn't follow the laws. Look at how YouTube shows children things no television network ever would've been allowed to show them, for another example.

I haven't seen evidence that YouTube is breaking the law in this regard. The law governing network TV is complicated and pinned philosophically on the finite airwaves that are a national resource (so there are some trade-offs a private institution makes with the public, represented by the government and laws, for the exclusive privilege of having its use of a slice of bandwidth protected from interference). No such "finite national resource" management concern exists for data from private websites travelling across privately-owned wires onto private computers at the request of individuals in the privacy of their own homes.

Yes, the slippery slope from "forum dedicated to encouraging the suicide of transsexuals" to "file-sharing host". Definitely a smooth gradient between the two.

Free speech is when you dox people. Personally, I get the impression that a lot of these Swedish bittorrent nerds are probably mask-on.

All those words and not once mentioning the dead victims. Cool, cool TorrentFreak.

Probably because there being any "dead victims" at all is tenuous and unproven.

Sorry, I meant people who committed suicide from the harassment. Ya know, the freedom to swat people you don't like. Normal free liberatarian stuff.

Just wild all these hn dudes creating new accounts to defend the right of the American Nazi Party to be hosted on resilient infrastructure. That's a weird fight to triumph and yet here we are.

Detecting big "lower the age of consent" libertarianism going on here again. I mean, I am on a website for weird nerds. But I'm a weird nerd too.

byuu (author of bsnes/higan) would be alive today if KF posters stopped harassing them, encouraging their suicide, and refusing to remove personal information despite byuu specifically warning that such actions were deteriorating their mental state to the point of triggering suicidal thoughts.

In short, you don't know what you're talking about, so please don't say this like it's a fact.

This really reads like as if it was written by an elementary school student.

Imagine being so guilty about your piracy websites that you think going after coordinated harassment is a threat? I'm sure it's just the author's incredibly high-minded.. oh yeah, the article is trash and mostly answers nothing except lending credibility to shit journalism in mild centrist support of said coordinated harassment.

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