Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    Cloudflare is such a weird company in various ways. Saying loudly that they canā€™t judge groups when people ask them not to support the neo-nazis, harassers and worse (they have moved on this under pressure, but it takes a lot of pressure). But then they do this.

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      Wasnā€™t the first time he shut down 8chan (or was it Kiwifarms? Something along the lines), he immediately came out to say ā€œItā€™s really bad that I have the power to take down a website of shitheads.ā€ Just seemed like everything about his ideology is confused.

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        Nobody told him to make his CDN so dominant in the market. He kinda chose to have this power. If you think Cloudflareā€™s services are some kind of a universal inalienable right, make them free, you pussy. Be a philantropist, share that sweet bandwidth with the poor. Gimme a /24, coward. Why are you taking money for a basic necessity, you monster?

        Yā€™all can thank me for taking down 8ch and KF, because I also do not run hosting infrastructure for either of them. Same goes to all of you who do not run a CDN that welcomes nazi websites. Thank you for your service.

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        Thereā€™s nothing confused about his ideology. Anything to do with porn or sex work will get kicked to the curb without a second thought, but fascists and bigots will be defended up to the point where they try to restart sectarian violence in Ireland (which was the final act of kiwi farms, from recollection. Presumably even the ceo couldnā€™t defend them at that point, though I bet he tried).

        Dude doesnā€™t give a shit about free speech, or lament the power heā€™s ended up with. He just really loves fascism.

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          Anything to do with porn or sex work will get kicked to the curb without a second thought

          canā€™t say why but I can say this is not completely/100% true; however

          but fascists and bigots will be defended up to the point where they try to restart sectarian violence

          yup

          please donā€™t get me wrong, Iā€™m not going to bat for cloudflare. the company is detestable and problematic in extremely many dimensions

          in this particular case and wrt the dude himself, it indeed appears to be much about the power. in the case of the commentary FredFig references, I suspect that came through a lens of ā€œit is bad that I can do this [where ā€œthisā€ is ā€œacquiesce to societal pressure to silence people I donā€™t wish to silenceā€]ā€. didnā€™t see the comment at the time though, so I have no idea if it was dogwhistled or what at the time

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      I guess I should be clear this is not an endorsement of cloudflare, just fun to see dickheads being dickheads to each other