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BilbroNaggins 14 points ago +14 / -0

But in any case removing it without anything already in place will open the doors to use the legal system to attack (and most likely destroy) this site and other similar, as long we don't have a better protection it shouldn't be just discarded at all.

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magaspif 34 points ago +37 / -3

You know what? I'm fine with that for the moment - shut it all down. We can go back to usenet and irc heh.

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-FredBear- 12 points ago +12 / -0

/s irc.thedonald.win -j #WINNING

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Undo1913 5 points ago +5 / -0

What is mIRC

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no_step_on_snek 1 point ago +1 / -0

An old windows client for IRC, which is internet relay chat.

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CandyBarr 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think it was an internet relay chat system I vaguely remember it being a thing. Something similar became AOL instant messenger

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Frogleg3 7 points ago +7 / -0

isnt usenet still around? has anyone be checking lately to see if conversations are still happening there?

maybe all this time it has been an uncensored haven.

edit. hmmm. still around. used to ne able tobread usenet with thunderbird mail reader on linux. https://www.usenet.com

https://www.techradar.com/best/best-nzb-indexing-websites

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CandyBarr 5 points ago +5 / -0

Please still be a thing.

I feel like we’ve come full circle in a way internet wise

Make alt.bianaries great again

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zooty 4 points ago +4 / -0

Still very much there. I've been saying for a while that it needs a 2.0 version.

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Frogleg3 3 points ago +3 / -0

ah yes. playboy mag photos you could download in big swaths at 56k!

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Techrev 5 points ago +5 / -0

They censored and dcmaed the holy hell out of Usenet, and IRC is centrally modded worse than anyplace. I don't see them as safe havens for free speech.

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magaspif 3 points ago +3 / -0

Then nothing is - right now what is important is to get the law changed. and if you keep bending over because you care more about TDW than seeing facebook and twitter burn, you need to think a bit more critically.

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Techrev 2 points ago +2 / -0

I agree. I think TDW will work itself out without the doomers.

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no_step_on_snek 0 points ago +2 / -2

I care about free speech online... You're proposing a change in law that essentially ends that entirely. You need to be thinking more critically. Scorched earth is not the approach we should be taking here.

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JerryJerryJerry 2 points ago +2 / -0

alt.binaries.covfefe

Make Usenet great again!

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RussianAgent13 7 points ago +7 / -0

Yes I can't disagree with that. This is an issue patriots can argue about, and I wouldn't call Inhofe a RINO over it. But repeal and replace works too. Anything to hurt big tech.

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CandyBarr 5 points ago +5 / -0

They’ve not been playing by he rules

Wait until Trump wakes people up to how they expatriate money

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Hemirocket 2 points ago +2 / -0

Most cases wouldn't have much grounds to litigate and would seem frivolous

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