I typically bring up the ISIS murdersites that somehow lasted longer on the Internet than did sites like this, or Stormfront. Why do I do that?
Because I like to remind people who are all about how good they are that they focused on crap like Encyclopedia Dramatica versus places where you can see a row of men executed near simultaneously with detcord. Someone just has to point and say "Nazi!?" and everyone goes wild, but videos of a caged man being set on fire to dance about in his own self-immolation, that gets a pass. 8chan is bad if they take a clip of that and put "Disco Inferno" as a backing track as a .webm, but somehow the original source just ... well, that happened somewhere else. How does this work?
I remember the shoe being on the other foot in the distant past, but memories are short. Everything in this post is about the refutation of our naive "The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" beliefs back when it was "our guys" getting censored. While definitions of what constitutes fascism varies, many of them feature the tight alignment of corporations with the government, where the corporation carries out the will of the government at the time, side-stepping legal protections a citizen might have against the government.
Paypal is going to have its $2,500 disinformation fee. Payment processors can and will lock down anything not squeaky clean. This consolidation only allows for greater control by fewer and fewer entities.
If nothing else, allow me to appeal to your self-interest. Imagine that all of these strictures come into place and then the "wrong government" gets into power. Swap out wordlists of banned topics, update the image filters, and boom.
People are in such a hurry to create manacles but never stop to wonder if the shackles will end up on their own wrists.
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I typically bring up the ISIS murdersites that somehow lasted longer on the Internet than did sites like this, or Stormfront. Why do I do that?
Because I like to remind people who are all about how good they are that they focused on crap like Encyclopedia Dramatica versus places where you can see a row of men executed near simultaneously with detcord. Someone just has to point and say "Nazi!?" and everyone goes wild, but videos of a caged man being set on fire to dance about in his own self-immolation, that gets a pass. 8chan is bad if they take a clip of that and put "Disco Inferno" as a backing track as a .webm, but somehow the original source just ... well, that happened somewhere else. How does this work?
I remember the shoe being on the other foot in the distant past, but memories are short. Everything in this post is about the refutation of our naive "The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" beliefs back when it was "our guys" getting censored. While definitions of what constitutes fascism varies, many of them feature the tight alignment of corporations with the government, where the corporation carries out the will of the government at the time, side-stepping legal protections a citizen might have against the government.
Paypal is going to have its $2,500 disinformation fee. Payment processors can and will lock down anything not squeaky clean. This consolidation only allows for greater control by fewer and fewer entities.
If nothing else, allow me to appeal to your self-interest. Imagine that all of these strictures come into place and then the "wrong government" gets into power. Swap out wordlists of banned topics, update the image filters, and boom.
People are in such a hurry to create manacles but never stop to wonder if the shackles will end up on their own wrists.