Interesting Links for 03-09-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Dreamwidth are moving away from Cloudflare, after Cloudflare refused to stop supporting sites that threaten people's physical safety

(tags:dreamwidth freespeech GoodNews abuse )

2. What would it be like for you if your life had a sports commentator?

(tags:sports narrative life )

3. Everywhere, no matter how boring it looks, has a history

(tags:edinburgh history scotland viaSwampers )

4. Russian oil energy price cap agreed by G7

(tags:russia oil )

5. Diablo Immortal whales face massive orb debt after third-party refunds (I find all of this hilarious, in-between wishing I didn't know what it meant)

(tags:viaSwampers games diablo fraud )

6. The UK welfare system is cruel, disgusting, and murderous

(tags:UK welfare murder OhForFucksSake conservatives )

7. Nuclear explosions in the style of various artists

(tags:nuclearweapons art ai viaPatrickHadfield )

8. Modern cars are much safer than old ones

(tags:safety cars )

9. AI is getting better at generating porn.

(tags:porn ai )

10. Worker says her job would rather replace her with 6 people than give her a raise,

(tags:work OhForFucksSake )

11. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh

(tags:history Edinburgh architecture viaPatrickHadfield )

12. Valve bars Steam developer who posted anti-trans rant in patch notes

(tags:games bigotry LGBT valve Steam transgender )

Comments

[andrewducker]

It's a site that exists to harass people into suicide, or to kill them.

Nobody should be providing it service, or they're complicit.

[zz]

no, AIUI it's supposed to be a site to laugh at the "internet famous", albeit with some *impressively* toxic users, and a lot of trans hate for some reason. for me it and sites like it come up when i'm wondering "whatever happened to x youtuber". describing it as "exists to harass people into suicide, or to kill them" smells like a tabloid moral panic headline.

[andrewducker]

If your site contains people who are harassing and abusing people to death and you do nothing about it then you are a site that harasses and murders people.

[fub]

It's the same way that if you are at an event and someone brings a nazi flag, and nobody does anything about it -- you are at a nazi event.

Also, Cloudflare is not a utility or common carrier. They pretend they are, but they are not -- if they want to, they should make sure they are regulated as one. (But of course they don't want that...)
Dreamwidth decision to move off Cloudflare made me buy a year of paid account, even though it's not my main blog (I just mirror my actual blog to here).