Worth reading, but infuriating at the same time. Whining that "common rooms and public squares are the playgrounds of racist and anti-sex algorithms, of incels and Nazis, of [...] the iron fist of dated conservative values."https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta/ …
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My generation fought the CDA in 1996 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act …). The authoritarian rot set in with carpetbaggers like the BoingBoing set, who eventually compromised groups like EFF, and now here we are. This is a crude and ugly meme, but when the shoe fits...pic.twitter.com/4tHtt3CBHs
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"When was the last time you thought of the Internet as a weird and wonderful place?" People like the author of this piece stumbled into a garden, decided they owned the place, and set about improving it by removing all the filthy _dirt_ it was growing in.
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I grew up on IRC, message boards and 4chan. There was zero, to say the very least, censorship on any of these. The censorship came when weird lefties, the proto-SJWs, became mods and "tech influencers." This is 100% right; it was puritanical censorship alright, but from left
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There's an entire segment of online research that attempts to trace the exegenesis of the modern net "SJW," and it may have started in earnest during a forum war at the Somethingawful forums sometime in 2003-2005. Its culture spawned from offensive jokes, policing offensive jokes
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A lot of it spawned at SA, some of it incubated on LiveJournal, and some came from carpetbagger professionals like BoingBoing.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.