Is it time to crack down on 4Chan

chamber · Post Post #25 (isolation #0) » Wed May 08, 2019 7:38 am

You can't stop anonymous hate speech without radically restructuring the whole internet.

chamber · Post Post #28 (isolation #1) » Wed May 08, 2019 9:08 am

In post 26, popsofctown wrote:Yeah but can't you make it inconvenient enough that far fewer people bother?
Y'know the same way stopping music piracy would require radically restructuring the internet, except bonking one or two of the most popular has been enough to dramatically cut it.

Piracy didn't slow down because big names got bopped. It slowed down because legal means caught up with the superior (previously)illegal distribution methods. You might be able to reduce the size of microphone for hate speech, and I'm ok with that. Banning youtube accounts or twitter accounts engaging in hate speech. But someone could be completely anonymous on mafiascum and still traffic in hate speech. How many sites like mafiascum are there? 1000s.

chamber · Post Post #31 (isolation #2) » Wed May 08, 2019 9:45 am

Cloudflare is a CDN. You blatantly have no idea what you are talking about.

chamber · Post Post #33 (isolation #3) » Wed May 08, 2019 10:35 am

I have to admit that my first instinct is that de-anonymizing the internet is a horrible idea. But I'd need to give it more thought and actually do research before settling on that. I'm just making comments about the technical feasibility. Its not remotely simple.

chamber · Post Post #66 (isolation #4) » Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:11 pm

In post 63, Flubbernugget wrote:
In post 31, chamber wrote:Cloudflare is a CDN. You blatantly have no idea what you are talking about.
Can you talk to me about why a CDN isn't responsible for what it hosts? The only issue I can think of is that it hampers their performance, which I'm not going to cry over any time soon.

CDN's are really close to just being common carries. So for the same reason you can't sue the ISP for serving the content.