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So, the EFF has 33 years of experience fighting in courts on matters of digital rights, and somehow you feel like you know both the current law and the legal consequences of court precedents better than them?
Based on how composed you've been in this comment section, I'm going to assume the EFF has been around longer than you have.
They are feeling personally attacked, by the content of the discussion, so they're acting out. That's completely understandable at a human level.
The reason we have these discourses is so we can hammer out our ideals, and see them implemented in different ways.
So let's use other examples, so that people aren't as emotionally invested in the particular discourse.
Telecommunication providers, at least in the United States, are given safe harbor from the content they deliver, so long as they don't editorialize (select what's allowed). If something's illegal that's up to the legal system to enforce. And if there's a court order websites can be taken off, routes can be blackhold, links can be seized.
The United States government, and their politicians, have a long history of not cutting off the communication even of their enemies. We still maintained phone connections to the USSR during the entire Cold war. The internet was not shut off in Iraq during the Iraqi wars. Iran despite sanctions is still online. US certainly could bully many of the world's interconnects to completely drop these countries. But they don't. For a variety of reasons, but I think the most fundamental is you have to demonstrate that you believe in your free communication principles if you want everyone to mimic them. A secondary but still important reason, is to see what your enemies are saying. That's actionable intelligence!
Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.
As a postscript for this discussion only, be aware that virtually all the replies to my comments quote me out of context, or claim I've made arguments I haven't. It's safe to disregard them.
Context follows:
EDIT: I'm just going to bow out at this point.
The guy I responded flamed me over something that I never said, and you're all upmodding them and downvoting me because... I can speculate.
But it's clear nobody here cares about the arguments. Nobody, not one, has addressed the issues I've raised. Insulted me, changed the subject, put words in my mouth, sure. But that gives you some idea of the shitshow this has become. You've taken a side and the moment someone says "Wait, WTF? This principle has never existed and the logical conclusion of what you're demanding is tyranny, not frozen peaches", you downvote, and flame, and lie about what's been said.
You want to defend a campaign to kill trans people, or support the view that an action ISPs take every day with respect to spammers, fraud, copyright infringement, and a whole host of other things without any external prodding or lawsuits, is somehow inappropriate when done against a campaign to kill trans people, you go right ahead.
That's between you and your conscience.
To me, I'm disappointed in humanity. And that means you all. You are all horrible, horrible, people.
c/technology, you are evil people.
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pdqinfo
I did not accuse you of not reading an article.
The EFF position is eminently defendable which is why lots of people here are defending it.
We can have a difference of opinion on how to tackle global crime. And I'm not undermining your position I feel your position is a reasonable one, but removing my rationale, devaluing my rationale and attacking my ability to think is not helping your argument.
I see you updated your comment.
"The guy I responded flamed me over something that I never said, and you're all upmodding them and downvoting me because... I can speculate."
"But it's clear nobody here cares about the arguments. Nobody, not one, has addressed the issues I've raised. Insulted me, changed the subject, put words in my mouth, sure."
I have not flamed you, I have not insulted you, I have not misquoted you. As the person your responding to, I'm sorry you have found yourself in this position.
Honestly, rereading all the posts here, no-one has insulted you at all, everyone has been more-or-less civil, with no name calling, or ad hominim attacks.
If your going to be upset with me, please at least be upset with me for things I've actually done.
Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.
As a postscript for this discussion only, be aware that virtually all the replies to my comments quote me out of context, or claim I've made arguments I haven't. It's safe to disregard them.
From the very first reply, you implied that the argument that the EFF made was wrong, and that this precedent could not be used to block women's access to abortion: "It’s incredibly easy for an ISP to point out that they’re not going to block a network for a different reason by pointing out it’s… not the same reason. Banning abortion information is not the same thing as banning a harassment network that’s causing deaths."
If that's the case, how did they get Ross Ulbricht? He ran a darkweb marketplace, in theory, harder to pin down than something on the clearnet like Kiwi Farms.
The same precedent that bans Kiwi Farms at the ISP level, could be used to block women's access to safe abortion, causing deaths as well. And no, I'm not gonna take your word for it that it can be avoided in court in the future. You're just some rando on the internet with no legal expertise, unlike the EFF.
I'm all in favor in prosecuting people responsible for peoples' deaths and shutting down that website, but not by using something that could cause harm to others in the future.
"Why won't anyone engage with my fallacious bullshit?" - pqdinfo "Well, this is why" - orizuru "BLOCKED" - pqdinfo
Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.
As a postscript for this discussion only, be aware that virtually all the replies to my comments quote me out of context, or claim I've made arguments I haven't. It's safe to disregard them.
Quit embarrassing yourself and follow up on deleting your comments already. You're a master class in how not to argue. If I still taught debate, I'd be using your comments to demonstrate fallacies.