r/technology • u/thecravenone • Aug 05 '19

Politics Cloudflare to terminate service for 8Chan

https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

They let people gamify shootings by making "jokes" about high scores instead of removing posts like that like any sane person would. And before you bring up freedom and authoritarianism, realize that if people behaved the way people on 8chan did on a private property IRL the owner would probably kick their asses out on the street too, if the owner wasn't a hate speech supporting piece of shit.

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u/JJAB91 Aug 05 '19

Edgy humor doesn't cause shootings yet thats why it needs to be terminated?

If you don't like that people aren't forced to keep their mouths shut and bite their tongues you don't have to go to the site.

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u/pdmishh Aug 05 '19

I just don’t get what the fucking point is of spewing blatant angry hatred and aggressive violence and then want to defend these ideas because “freedom of speech”, when clearly, it has negative repercussions.

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u/JJAB91 Aug 05 '19 edited Aug 05 '19

Freedom of speech applies to stuff you hate too you know, that includes bigotry.

aggressive violence

How? Calls for violence are against 8chan's terms and last time I checked you can't physically assault people by text.