> citing an “immediate threat to human life” due to threats and potential criminal actions from Kiwi Farms users [...] Kiwi Farms is known for collecting and publicizing personal details about targets it holds in contempt, many of whom are transgender women
Sounds sensible. I also wouldn't want to host such content tbh, similar to CSAM or pirated movies or so, hosting this material sounds somewhere between being a dick and a shortcut to getting the whole site taken down
I could see the point of keeping it around for research and law enforcement purposes but not the general public
I'm glad to hear this is not about censoring for a political agenda, that would have been a huge blow to how I value and trust the IA with what I've come to find a very useful function on the internet
An odd position to take seeing that the same article mentions the IA refusing to take down "terrorist content." "Terrorist content" is certainly worse than piracy or people being dicks online and obviously presents an greater threat to life.
I must admit that I don't know much about terroristic content. I've heard what harassment does to individuals even when it's not paired with entire groups of people interested in using the available information to seek you out (that's what this Farm site desceiption sounds like). The chance of being impacted by terrorism on the other hand are astronomically small and, the more attention we give it, the better it works, so based on that idea I've never looked into it. What even is terroristic content, do they try to convince you to join their cause or is it announcements of bombings or what should I even imagine this is?
I'm sorry but the number of people directly affected by terrorism and the followers of terrorism is of orders of magnitude higher than those affected by the dicks on Kiwi farms and their followers. Even if I count only those literally killed by terrorism. Thus the chances of such as well.
Calling Kiwi Farms an "immediate threat to human life" is not even remotely close to sensible. You can justify pretty much any censorship if you allow that rhetoric.
Sounds sensible. I also wouldn't want to host such content tbh, similar to CSAM or pirated movies or so, hosting this material sounds somewhere between being a dick and a shortcut to getting the whole site taken down
I could see the point of keeping it around for research and law enforcement purposes but not the general public
I'm glad to hear this is not about censoring for a political agenda, that would have been a huge blow to how I value and trust the IA with what I've come to find a very useful function on the internet