The wonderful thing about making it harder to get to is that it proves everyone who goes there is guilty. They can no longer say I stumbled on it.

And that has exactly shit-all to do with whether a private company gets to say, “Take your fucking business elsewhere you Nazi shitheads.” The Internet is not a public space. It is not an American space. And there is a vast difference between, “I am not allowed to curtail your life and liberty for saying this” and…

You sound like you’re more of a fan of goosestepping rather than overstepping.

Mr. Prince wrote:

They came for the Nazis and I said nothing...

We’ve tried that for twenty years. The net result is Nazis marching in the goddamn streets with the vocal support of the President of the United States. Maybe it’s time to admit that “good information and truth will always eventually win out over lies and hate speech” was a well-intentioned pipe dream that has done…

The line is drawn at “Nazi”.

I just cannot support the notion that people with fringe ideas should be shut down just because most of us disagree with them and find them abhorrent. The solution to bad speech is not censorship it’s MORE speech on the topic. Tocqueville was very prescient when he said, more than 200 years ago, that the greatest…

“We don’t serve white supremacists” is not a slippery slope. Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

the constitution does not protect you from private individuals calling you an asshole, only the government. Reading is good for you.

That’s why he’s calling for discussion; he’s basically addressing other hosting services, etc and asking them “Where should we draw the line for this? There has to be a line somewhere, right? So where?” He doesn’t think the decision should be made by one person, so he’s asking the Industry to help decide as a whole,…

people forget that the first amendment only protects you from the government...if someone decides you’re an asshole, they do not have to host you! That is not protected!

Good call on Prince’s part. It’s one thing to be tolerant of broadly dissident voices and to maintain a certain impartiality or neutrality when providing this kind of service - not unlike booksellers handling controversial works - but there’s a certain (very extreme but present) point where you just have to be a moral…

I’m okay with this. If no commercial venture will host this kinda content. They (the assholes) can go old school and create their own BBS if no one will host them. Then... when you visit a new friends home and you notice they have a landline running to a computer. “You have a fax modem or something.... oh wait. You’re…