I Don't Like What You Have To Say, Thereby YOU Have No Right To Speak

[GURPS]

The pending disruption for DDoS-Guard and Parler comes compliments of Ron Guilmette, a researcher who has made it something of a personal mission to de-platform conspiracy theorist and far-right groups.

In October, a phone call from Guilmette to an Internet provider in Oregon was all it took to briefly sideline a vast network of sites tied to 8chan/8kun — a controversial online image board linked to several mass shootings — and QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory which holds that a cabal of Satanic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against President Donald Trump. As a result, those QAnon and 8chan sites also ultimately ended up in the arms of DDoS-Guard.

Much like Internet infrastructure firm CloudFlare, DDoS-Guard typically doesn’t host sites directly but instead acts as a go-between to simultaneously keep the real Internet addresses of its clients confidential and to protect them from crippling Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.

The majority of DDoS-Guard’s employees are based in Russia, but the company is actually incorporated in two other places: As “Cognitive Cloud LLP” in Scotland, and as DDoS-Guard Corp. based in Belize. However, none of the company’s employees are listed as based in Belize, and DDoS-Guard makes no mention of the Latin American region in its map of global operations.

DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler – Krebs on Security

krebsonsecurity.com

 

[GURPS]

Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms​

Cloudflare's latest appeal against a DNS-blocking injunction has been rejected. The Court of Milan found that since Cloudflare already blocks other content, restricting access to three torrent sites should be possible too. The internet infrastructure company hasn't commented on the order but now faces the prospect of additional site-blocking requests in Italy.

Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool. ISPs in dozens of countries have been ordered by courts to block pirate sites.

More recently, these blocking requests have expanded to DNS providers as well. In Germany, for example, a court ordered DNS resolver Quad9 to prevent users from accessing the music piracy site Canna.to.

 

[SamSpade]

The title of the post has been the left's m.o. for as long as I can remember. It's not enough that they don't believe "both" sides of an issue should get equal time if they think one side is utter bullchit. They also openly epouse the idea that it should not be allowed to be mentioned at all.

If you've ever known and talked with someone who defends an authoritarian state - say, China or Russia or some other country - this is exactly the kind of reasoning they use. YOUR opinion is harmful to the harmony of the nation and therefore cannot be allowed to be mentioned.

I do think that there's an active movement to quash our youngster's grasp pf freedom and our Constitution that they believe stuff like this - that "harmful" ideas must not be allowed.

"Harmful" ideas - hateful words - distasteful history - they MUST be allowed to exist, so we learn from them. You know the old expression that nothing is a complete failure - it can always serve as an EXAMPLE of a failure? Looney ideas must be allowed to be spoken, so people know them to be looney and can reason for themselves.

Hence, my signature line ----