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kleinbl00  ·  1833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets

    Will there ever be an end to the ripples in the Internet universe caused by Gamergate? We may never know.

From the very get-go, the coders knew that censorship was nearly impossible so they espoused libertarian ideals that made censorship unnecessary.

Then censorship became essential so they espoused libertarian ideals that made censorship useless.

Then the shit hit the fan so they espoused libertarian ideals that made censorship regrettable.

Then people died so they espoused remorse.

History will not judge this era of programmer kindly.

    Mr. Brennan describes himself as a lapsed libertarian with no fixed ideology. But he believes that there is no way to stop the toxic speech that has come to define the site without reshaping the internet more broadly. For that to happen, he says, the internet as a whole needs “to be totally redesigned and re-engineered with more censorship in mind.”

"Well shit I guess the nanny state was right all along," said every fucking apologia these shitstains leak out