We're big supporters of the EFF, but I can't get on board with the idea that somehow it's wrong or a slippery slope for Tier 1 ISPs to be blocking Kiwifarms.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.
Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
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What's special about kiwifarms though? The fact that they are promoting violence in *your* country? For example, Myanmar and Ethiopia had Facebook-based genocides within the last 24 months. Should Facebook be cut off from the internet too? Would kiwifarms be acceptable if they started hosting an unrelated, benign forum for normal people on the same server? I agree with the EFF's slippery slope argument.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/business/ethiopia-violence-facebook-papers-cmd-intl/index.html
Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report
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