On: Terminating Service for 8Chan

[futureastronaut]

> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design

What does "lawless by design" mean?

[Jerry2 → futureastronaut]

> What does "lawless by design" mean?

It's a euphemism for sites that are not censored and still allow free speech. Matthew Prince used to support freedom of speech but he's abandoned that concept a while back.

[ufo → futureastronaut]

4chan banned some of its more disgusting users, and they migrated to 8chan. By design it is a hate-speech echo chamber (aka "free speech zone")

[NikkiA → futureastronaut]

8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up, as such they have no real control even over people running pedo boards.

That is pretty obviously 'lawless by design'.

[55555 → NikkiA]

> 8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up

How is this implemented?

[duskwuff → 55555]

> How is this implemented?

By throwing up their hands and claiming that it's too hard to implement.

8ch is not running a highly sophisticated software stack. (Quite honestly, their code [1] is pretty terrible -- it's a bunch of frameworkless, hacked-together PHP.) Nothing about their setup is especially elaborate or unusual; at best, "we can't ban content" is an admission of their incompetence.

[1]: https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB

[NikkiA → 55555]

The only people that can ban content are the board owners.

Sure I imagine they could go db diving and ban content manually, but they don't want to.

[dx034 → futureastronaut]

8chan was created to provide a platform for content that wouldn't be accepted else where.