Comment by ShowalkKama
3 days ago
Kiwifarms back in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673
"Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems."
Bad example, that was clearly them yielding to a lynch mob in the performance of its duties, as the saying goes. They clearly would've been content neutral in that case too, if the mob hadn't turned against them too.
> yielding to a lynch mob
Reacting to public outcry by cutting off a legal stressor?
I just don't think it's that big a deal.
Being hosted on someone's private server is a privilege, not a right. As far as I know the host is legally responsible for the material they dispense.
In the abstract, I believe everybody should have access to web hosting. But upholding that mission is not the job of one private company.
Anyway, I guess "content-neutral" is an easier sell for most people than "We will 99 times out of 100 let you be even if you're pretty out-there, unless people start suing us about you and it's pretty plain to see you might be a degenerate force on the social internet, in which case yeah we'll tell you to beat it".
Like, it's not a power that should be exercised liberally. But be real. It's Kiwifarms. Businesses have a right to refuse service to recreational gangstalkers