Probably a plea deal. Plead guilty to a few charges and others are considered closed. If you do not have the millions required to litigate this mess, it is probably the safest option.

I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.

All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.

I disagree. If they cannot follow basic instructions to get into a system, and we are talking very low bar here, they probably are not going to be able to successfully operate any kind of discussion forum.

They have done this for years, unfortunately. Admins are the weak spot in Reddit, not the jannies (ironically). My sympathies!

Hamtramck is dominated by a Muslim majority. There is not one USA, but many.

Win 11 is a bag of crap and shit.

It seems to glitch a lot and slow down common tasks. I have never had an operating system drop typed characters in the modern era. It also seems randomly hostile to pre-win7-era software.

Are people just now discovering that Reddit has run on full censorship for a long time?

Boomers got to live through the boom of the 70’s

Might be a typo there. You probably mean the 80s and early 90s. The 70s were pretty grim.

Higher education is typically liberal leaning.

You can see why they would oppose it then.

The political system filters out the noncompliant, so the parties start to resemble one another.

Reddit is just going to demod everyone who wants to keep it closed and hand the sub over to whatever compliant stooges they can find. It’s what they did to /r/drones.

For a non-technical user, or even a neophyte, the mere act of finding a Usenet news server is difficult.

This might be a good thing. All that is required is a little research and gumption. Filtering out those without that means a higher grade of users.

We all appreciate the gift of fire.

Link rot on YouTube is insane. I have been scraping old demos in case the accounts get reported or zapped for impolitic speech.

It’s going to be difficult to jam outside of the cities. I imagine people are going to set up private wired networks in their neighborhoods, or use Wi-Fi mesh. The good news is that at that point, laws against piracy will be totally moot.

Sure, and both were exposed to PARC and early 80s experiments in GUIs. There was a certain amount of convergence. But it is interesting that Windows was in motion first.

Good idea. It’s probably a niche community, but when people discover it, they will probably download at least a few gigabytes of the early years material.

Yes, frequently. They also like to keep stuff off of Wikipedia with arbitrary “notability” rules. There used to be a great community of Wikipedia critics, but I’ve lost all the links.

Regret is a powerful teacher!