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Re: "Waiting patiently for all the Free Speech Warriors to decry..."
DDOS is an attack on free speech in a way that not linking to someone else's capsule is not. If you can't even understand that, thanks far proving my point.
Jan 12 · 2 months ago
I haven't kept up with DOS since MS-DOS 3.3. Amazing that it's still a thing!
🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 12 at 22:20:
The latest versions kind of suck 😤
🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 13 at 00:56:
@stack But FreeDOS is beautiful.
In all seriousness, november is right that DDoS can serve as a very potent attack on free speech. It's as disruptive as firing a bomb at a crowd of protestors.
The same cannot be said for failing to keep a link up.
Didn't Codeberg suffer a DDOS attack 2 days ago?
🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 13 at 18:29:
It did, yeah. People are speculating it could be because they host Sourcehut's status page, or it could just be a "fuck you" to FOSS git forges in general, who knows.
If denial-of-service is an attack on free speech, then so is a cafe closing early on a holiday. Y'all sound silly when you use constitutional terms to sensationalize the banal.
🐦 wasolili [...] · Jan 14 at 07:36:
@addison a ddos can be an attack on free speech since it is an unlawful attack on someone's ability to exercise their right to free expression. But I do agree that this thread is silly since the thread is just a bad faith attempt to reignite the antenna drama
🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 14 at 14:15:
Hint: I do not actually think anyone is violating Sourcehut's constitutional rights. I am making an observation about other people. Hope that helps.
Waiting patiently for all the Free Speech Warriors to decry Sourcehut's DDOS attack with the same vitriol they had toward Antenna choosing not to link to a capsule that you can still visit and read any time you want to.