I'd wager the vast majority of internet censorship is within platform, like that done by Reddit mods.
The most egregious example I've seen in my lifetime was when old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article, down to blocking sharing in DMs.
It seems that type of example is entirely missed here. Is there any attempt to capture that signal?
But your point is well taken, it's definitely more challenging and expensive than what's being done here.
... and then check for those (or, counterexamples) in the wild.-
Literally even 4chan has moderation.
Nobody, not even 4chan users, want an actually unmoderated space.
You may agree or disagree with the ban, but surely you agree that we should be aware of such Overton window enforcement.
This is very much in line with the likes of pokemon go, wiki landmark projects and what have you (those are nice things to have for autonomous drones/missiles to navigate only with vision when gps/cellular/starlink is actively blocked).
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Russia banned stuff like speedtest because things like that may help “map” the network, aid NSA to model malware propagation, etc.
Not that this should matter when you have cisco, dell, nokia hardware, but it won’t hurt either.
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I mean come on, some nuts even willingly install stuff like this: https://atlas.ripe.net/
If 4chan didnt have spam filters, the users would be begging for it almost immediately because the website would become unusable.
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