- The sr.ht domain has a subdomain l.sr.ht where images can be uploaded by a few people who have the privilege to do so.
- There's IRC logs from 2020 where he says l.sr.ht has exactly 5 users.
- There's a danbooru account called dmpwn which sounds similar to his online alias SirCmpwn AND has posted links to l.sr.ht, almost certainly proving it's his account.
- As late as 2016, that account has shared drawn child pornography on danbooru.
- On IRC, he has continued linking to danbooru as late as 2022. And his danbooru account is still currently active, though if I understand correctly it doesn't actively link to drawn child pornography since 2016...
Based on the above, it seems possible that he not only was into "loli hentai" (drawn or animated child pornography) in the past, but possibly still is to this day. He hasn't actively distanced himself from danbooru or his account there.
This makes it very puzzling as to why he would publish that Stallman report thing, trying to cancel Stallman for questionable opinions about pedophilia that seem most likely to be based on Stallman's tendency to be overly literal and odd in his language and thought patterns and such. While Drew, in contrast, seems actively pedophilic in his desires.
Perhaps Drew thinks that it's not about what you desire (which you can't control, he says, in a ~10 year old Reddit post defending a pedophile) but rather about what public statements you make. So he tells himself "I only indulge in private, but don't make harmful political statements"? I could see that as a psychological self defense i.e. coping strategy.
But let's be real. Sharing drawn child pornography with others is also a "statement." There's no sensible argument to be made that Drew doing that is *less* harmful than Stallman writing his opinions he wrote.
If he stopped doing that after 2016 because he now agrees it's wrong, then he should at least publicly own up to it apologize, given that he's trying to grill Stallman for much less.
@matrix@kaia I don't like jumping to assumptions because some people look very androgynous. For example, this person is female. They identify as a transman but don't take T so they can continue to compete in the women's division. (I suppose there might be some intersex condition, but no idea. This person is not to be confused with Imane Khelif, who is almost certainly biologically male and was probably raised as a girl due to 5ARD.)
> This is all done "for the safety" of their users, even though it doesn't in any way prevent the "bad people" from seeing those users; it merely silences them on Fedi.
Actually, I was unclear here. I think you know what I mean, but for the avoidance of doubt:
It doesn't fully silence those people, of course. They can still talk to each other on their own nodes, and could for instance still organise harassment campaigns if that was their intention.
It doesn't deal with truly harmful people in any meaningful way. It just disrupts communication on a massive scale, between thousands of people, just to make it ever so slightly more difficult for a tiny minority of actual bad actors to carry out their harassment campaigns.
I think the real intention isn't even to combat harassment. It's just to silence people with views deemed unpleasant, and the "safety" thing is just the justification. (Exactly how authoritarian censorship always goes.)
> In practice the network is smaller and easier to disrupt, that's what my post was about.
But presumably this is just a factor of the smaller popularity? Is there a technical reason Nostr couldn't have as many relays as Fedi has nodes?
> If those people don't want to interact with you, I don't see any problem
I think about 99.999% (literally) of those people have never heard of me, and will never hear of me on the Fediverse, since I've been pre-emptively blocked for them by their admins.
Also, in almost all cases, even the admin blocking me doesn't do so because he or she heard of me, let alone has ever actually seen a post by me. Rather, the block is implemented by importing pre-made block lists.
These block lists include massive numbers of people, who might be associated with wrongthink in some way, because at some point the Fedi node they're on was flagged by someone and put on such a list. There is no oversight of this process, or transparency about the reasons. It's just a tiny minority of people who are trusted blindly as authorities on what people you should and shouldn't interact with. And they successfully split the entire Fediverse in two halves (or even more pieces) that can't interact.
This is all done "for the safety" of their users, even though it doesn't in any way prevent the "bad people" from seeing those users; it merely silences them on Fedi.
It really is just straight up authoritarian censorship, pretty much as bad as on centralised platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
You can put up new Nostr relays any time, and people can keep using their existing account with a new relay / app. (Identity is just a key.)
On the other hand, taking down a fedi node means that accounts on it are lost. (Identity includes domain name.)
And there's only that high number of fedi nodes because it's 20 years older and orders of magnitude more popular. Besides, 90% of users are on like 20-30 nodes, I think.
So, Nostr is the more censorship resilient one, isn't it?
Nostr also doesn't have the "admin dictatorship" problem, if I'm not mistaken. Fedi is already deeply broken due to that issue. Holding certain opinions, such as in favour of women's rights, means you will be banned from interacting with half of the Fediverse or more.
@kaia The women on the right must be so fucking uncomfortable. I can practically feel that suit riding up my coochie just looking at the pic, and I don't even have a coochie.
@newt@kaia No, males don't have female genitals. Was this an attempt at insulting me? Do you think having female body parts is something to be ashamed of, so you thought you would be insulting me by saying I have female genitals? That's really stupid.
@jesscraven101 This is a delusion. Thinking that J.K. Rowling's defense of women's human rights puts your child in danger is a delusion and makes you an extremist.
@ArneBab I'm seriously disappointed that you support this kind of misogynist extremism. The witch hunt against JKR is really dangerous. Women have already been suffering physical assault by radicalized trans activists for years, not to mention an endless torrent of death threats, vandalizing of their property, being hounded out of their jobs, etc., and it's only getting more and more extreme. Now people are saying feminists are responsible for the murder of a 15 year-old child, and no question this level of delusional hatred against feminists is going to end up in a number of renewed assaults down the line.
> Government will never ever directly take control of anything. They will get private business to do it, because that guarantees the ancap tards will see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
To my knowledge, in the US, it's corporations that control the government, not the other way around.
I believe businesses implemented mandates because they knew that they were otherwise risking large numbers of sickness among the workforce, ultimately leading to loss of profit.
We've actually seen a pretty big example of that happening in Germany:
1,500 workers infected, production shut down, forced to install HEPA filters before they were allowed to reopen.
To be completely fair, it sounds like it might have been related to the way the ventilation systems work in meat production sites: Air being constantly recirculated to save on cooling, with viruses surviving longer in the cold air...
Anyhow. I wonder what motivation you think governments have that leads them to implement vaccination mandates, other than a combination of protecting the economy (corpo profits) and protecting public health.
@cjd@r000t That's a really extreme position to take. I think there are a lot *more* emergencies out there that are not getting enough or even any attention. Of course, some issues may in turn be blown out of proportion for one or another reason, but I don't believe COVID was an example of that. It's easy to look away and think that everything must really be OK when you live in a small privileged bubble that's relatively unaffected.