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Comment by rectang

Yeah, the premise that "shadowbanning is the problem" betrays an unwillingness to perform root cause analysis. Nobody thinks shadowbanning in and of itself is desirable. Turn off shadowbanning, and all the problems that shadowbanning was helping to tamp down roar back.

> In essence its a denial of service attack.

Exactly. Free-reach absolutism prevents exercise of free speech by those set upon by the unmoderated mob.

parent rectang 4 years ago

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