Are people just now discovering that Reddit has run on full censorship for a long time?

All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.

Sort of. I like archiving and passing on stuff that is useful and likely to be forgotten. Laws and morals just get in the way. Hail Satan, praise Prometheus, and fuck the police!

The whole "Christian nation" thing makes me nervous. A lot of the founding fathers were deists or agnostics.

I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.

I never understood this until I saw link rot in action. Great projects just disappeared when people forgot to renew domain names or hosting contracts. Others went away when big services like Geocities vanished. Wikipedia and Google censorship took out a lot of others.

Let us hope this is the beginning of the end for Preddit. I do not trust these walled gardens.

They have done this for years, unfortunately. Admins are the weak spot in Reddit, not the jannies (ironically). My sympathies!

Win 11 is a bag of crap and shit.

It seems to glitch a lot and slow down common tasks. I have never had an operating system drop typed characters in the modern era. It also seems randomly hostile to pre-win7-era software.

Reddit is just going to demod everyone who wants to keep it closed and hand the sub over to whatever compliant stooges they can find. It's what they did to /r/drones.

Bet it happens for political reasons. First rule of suppressing revolutions is to cut communications.

Probably a plea deal. Plead guilty to a few charges and others are considered closed. If you do not have the millions required to litigate this mess, it is probably the safest option.

I like RapidShare and Mega, but as someone else said here, if you are trying to archive or share with a small audience, encrypt it and give it a generic filename and upload to your favorite normie service.

I feel the same way about music, which is why I am an obsessive buyer of physical music.

Allowing users to instance block also lets us filter out the simply irrelevant. Good thinking.

Interesting that Windows was in development before the Macintosh. To be fair, lots of 8-bit systems had experimental GUIs at the time as well.

What a classic machine, but I was also fond of the VAXen.

It's going to be difficult to jam outside of the cities. I imagine people are going to set up private wired networks in their neighborhoods, or use Wi-Fi mesh. The good news is that at that point, laws against piracy will be totally moot.

We all appreciate the gift of fire.

Regulation in general is too far from the locus of actual decision to be very precise. It's better just to keep government and big corps out entirely.