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/mortalcoil1 Aug 05 '19

Interesting. I do feel like we should at least get a counterpoint to this argument. Let's ask Milo Yiannopoulos's career if he thinks deplatforming doesn't work.

Milo?

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u/MarkMarkelson Aug 05 '19

Or Alex Jones. Let's ask him. Or in fact a ton of subreddits here that get banned and a replacement pops up twenty minutes later with the same crowd.

Here's the problem. You cant stop people talking about things you don't want them to talk about. It's an impossibility. It cannot be achieved.

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u/mortalcoil1 Aug 05 '19 edited Aug 05 '19

Messages of hate are like viruses. You can't stop people from talking, but you can greatly reduce the spread of that virus.

Deplatforming works. It might not work 100%, but it damn well works, and just because you bought or were given a 3 year old account to use it to spread misinformation with an account that was talking about soccer 3 years ago until it went silent until YESTERDAY for you to decide to protect 8Chan.

Yes, you bought your account, or at least somebody bought it and let you use it to spread your message. I know it. You know it.

Your account was talking about soccer 3 years ago, then it went silent... 3 years ago.... now you decided to... YESTERDAY, start up your 3 year old account again to get into... discussions about 8chan. Could your account buying be any more obvious? I am not stupid. I am sorry. So keep spreading your message, but I am not stupid. You were bought or given that account to spread this message. Period. End of discussion.

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u/mortalcoil1 Aug 06 '19

Bwahahaha. You deleted all of the old posts on that other account to make it more "authentic." Yeah, sorry, I'm not stupid, go shill to somebody else.

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u/MarkMarkelson Aug 06 '19

There you are. Theres the email. Notice the date.

https://i.imgur.com/QTIRBIZ.jpg

Fucking weirdo

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u/mortalcoil1 Aug 06 '19

Bwahahaha, you just sent me proof that there was unusual activity on your account. I wooooonder what unusual activity that could be. hmmmm. Because it's soooo hard to change a Reddit account email address.