Deplatforming Controversial Sites
Discussions revolve around takedowns and deplatformings of online platforms like Freenode, 4chan, Kiwi Farms, and others due to illegal content, activist flagging, legal pressures, or maintainer burnout, with comparisons to past incidents such as Lavabit and uBlock Origin.
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They made a blog post about thishttps://protonmail.com/blog/big-tech-deplatform-antitrust/
current rumors:reason may be the public hosted etherpad ("piratenpad") and a direction by the french public prosecutor's office
It was online around the time of OP's post. Looks like they went offline in response to this event.
A similar situation happened to the ublock origin maintainer: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/997206089132400641?s=09 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/997162260199075840?s=09
Reminiscent of the Freenode downfall
Looks like they issued a statement: https://freenode.net/news/freenode-pia-changes
It seems that Anonymous has taken over the site.
From their website it seems like they perform periodical "action days" where they sit down jointly with different groups and flag content on specific platforms. Might have been one of those.
Did someone take down his server because of this blogpost?
Same thing happened to an anonymous forum recently - https://twitter.com/lpushx