Gab, the "free speech social media" platform, has now had to delete its first posts because of violation of their domain registrar's "hate speech" TOS

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Whatever you think of the site, this should scare you. There are so many levels of indirection for censorship now it's ridiculous.

App Stores censor because of user content
Hosting services censor because of user content
Domain registrars censor because of user content
Payment processors censor because of user content

A website's TOS doesn't even matter anymore because multiple sites are facing deplatforming from one or multiple of these sources.

Net Neutrality only focuses on the ISP level because that affects mega corps like Amazon, Google and Netflix and their video services. It needs to apply to all internet infrastructure.

[–] jobes [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

An interesting response from that article:

8ch.net is registered under tucows, which seems to take a novel approach to avoid “abuse report” attack vectors:

http://www.tucowsdomains.com/disputes-and-complaints/spamorphishing/

Based upon this, I highly recommend switching registrants to tucows

Gab, the "free speech social media" platform, has now had to delete its first posts because of violation of their domain registrar's "hate speech" TOS

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