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Comment by dmatech | Hacker News Reader

Getting back to cancel culture, you can see the tactic here. The host is privately owned. The data center is OK with them as a tenant. Now they're putting Twitter pressure on the upstreams to cut off the data center. These people aren't willing to accept anything but victory.

https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1566301416917856256?t=...

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> These people aren't willing to accept anything but victory.

"Those people," and myself, view KF and their ilk as harmful to society. What exactly do you suggest should be accepted if not victory?

A realization that you have to share an internet with people who hate your guts so long as they don't break any laws. This includes all sorts of bigots. Rather than harassing internet backbones, file lawsuits.

> they don't break any laws

> file lawsuits

And here a glaring issue with this approach is apparent. Even _if_ the harassers meet the criteria for law-breaking, anonymity and civil suits having the burden of proof be on the plaintiff make this extremely difficult. I can think of any number of defenses, starting with "Someone guessed my WiFi password / took over my forum account."

It is far easier to pressure companies to de-platform hate than to individually find and file suit against the harassers.

It's clear that they're trying to take down the site by any means necessary, and that's why I ultimately find them far more dangerous than the people on that site.

Deplatforming using Twitter pressure is a terrifying tactic that tosses out the rulebook and replaces it with a popularity contest.

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