It requires a strong-willed webmaster and a board culture that rejects such unfun people.

Thus they are censored.

Part of the problem here is there are people that think any kind of censorship or moderation is wrong. I will not make any universal statement about the correctness of their position, but I will make a personal statement about their position. "They are fucking crazy".

Now, every once is a while you need a bit of fucking crazy to shock you out of the position you're in and reassess what position you should hold.

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cowlevel 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And by blocking certain people, you demonstrate to authorities that you can block anyone you want, and you will be held in contempt if you don't block anyone they want. As opposed to having no technical blocking capability.

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pixl97 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>As opposed to having no technical blocking capability.

I mean, this may have worked a decade or two ago, but if you built modern software this way the same government is going to toss your ass in jail.

"Oh no, I built a murder machine that I can't stop, I guess you can't prosecute me for that, it's out of my control".

You can only get away with that now if you're a billion dollar AI company. Otherwise the judge is going to halt your efforts and prosecute you for contempt and stupidity.

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cowlevel an hour ago | parent [-]

It's not for sure and you should consult a lawyer, but it's often the case that a court can't order you to do something you can't do.

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pixl97 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yet the law can. All the child protection laws we made years ago have made making unmoderated software very risky.

	▲	cowlevel 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Notice how they had to make that the law before it became the law. Before it was the law, you didn't have to unless a court ordered you to.

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ThrowawayTestr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On the forum I'm on, chuds are required to include "trans lives matter" in their comments or they don't show up. It's like anti-censorship.