Over the last few days, there's been a lot of discussion about kiwifarms being taken offline by Cloudflare. As is expected from HN, the average response was one appalled by the apparent free speech violation, and a general concern for the precedent being set.
While I understand the sentiment, and have thought the same in the past ( with Aaron Swartz or Chelsea Manning); I want to pose an alternative question: What's the precedence set by continuing to do business with kiwifarms?
Over the last few days there's been a lot I've wanted to say, but I felt like I couldn't speak. I've been on HN for the better part of a decade, but I can't say anything as myself. Instead I need to use a throwaway account and only connect over a VPN, because I'm a trans woman talking about kiwifarms.
I've seen how dangerous it can be for a trans woman to stick her head up. I've watched friends and strangers alike be harassed, attacked, SWAT'd, and doxxed. Not public figures (though they don't deserve death threats either), just regular trans people trying to live their lives and speak their experiences.
I no longer feel like I can speak up, for fear of illegal reprisals. Why should they be allowed to infringe on my rights? Why should I have to hide?
Cloudflair's decision to stop doing business with kiwifarms is a step towards free speech, not away.
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God these people are cute twinks, the OP is now in fear of "speaking up" because he's scared of " illegal reprisals"
Does he 1) Blame massive corporations for pooping all over freedom of speech for a decade straight, or 2) blame a small website who has actually been investigated multiple times by the feds and found to be doing nothing illegal???
He blames the shitty little website of course for ruining his free speech, because that's the easiest and most cowardly avenue to take. "Because of you we can't have nice things sweetie!!"
The part this dumb
leaves out of course, is anyone who disagrees with her is actually a threat to her free speech, that's actually what she meant to say.
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How much longer till the purity spiral destroys them all? I’m getting sick of this shit.
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What will happen is the person who is kicked out will kill themselves, and they will blame it on the Farms.
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Soviet Union lasted for 69 years. This ride will last your whole lifetime.
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Does this mean I get to watch the trans leftist old guard get mock trialed, gulag'd, and executed? Worth it.
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Yes but that comes after youre living in a pod eating bugs, and state sanctioned media wont tell you about it. If it does it will be a vague, tiny blurb on page 10B of the local paper, "state security intercepted [current thought crime] perpetrators last Sunday, 6 arrested in plot."
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What if I could speed it up by working harder against it?
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Work toward it. Accelerate
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The pendulum needs too swing back hard so all this corny TRANS LIVES MATTER shit goes away.
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