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Me too, friend. Me too.
The central reason why we can't have it anymore is that governments around the world have regulated it away. One example being what the article in the OP is about. 🙁
Governments have regulated that we can’t have forums, mailing lists? What about special interest bulletin boards? I read the article but I didn’t pick up on that.
Nah, they didn't. The legislation is bad but it was driven by research into mobile phone/social media addiction and harms to teenagers. There is more than a bit of a satanic panic angle but there is enough substance that I think we have to take the concerns seriously. The target is algorithmic addiction machines run by huge predatory companies. Any impact on sites like aussie.zone is unintended and nobody cares about a self hosted forum or list for neurodivergent kids.
All such laws create unintended opportunities for companies that want to capture identity data like Palantir which must be resisted to protect our democratic freedoms and national sovereignty but that shit has been happening with the massive concentration of power in big companies like Facebook anyway. We have to decentralise and get back to doing stuff locally.
The problem is people are fucking stupid and they all jumped to evil shit like Facebook and everything else died. I have to go out of my way to find out anything in my local community with sports, school etc because people are moronic sheep. Apparently I am the weird one for not giving all my family and communities data to evil foreign companies that are complicit in all sorts of shit up to and including genocide. The government is targeting the right bunch of unethical cunts even if they are not doing it well.
Of course. That’s my understanding too. Just wondering why this guy claims message boards and mailing lists have been regulated away and supported that by citing this article.
Yes, if they pass laws creating liability for their operators, or regulating that they have to verify ages or identities, etc.
Except that would mean forums like Steam or whirlpool would require people to verify their age is over 16 before posting but as far as I can tell they have no such requirements.
It seems to me that people can still quite easily set up forums for special interest topics and groups without issue from the government.