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DoS attacks are already a crime, so of course the need for some kind of solution is clear. But any proposal that gatekeeps the internet and restricts the freedoms with which the user can interact with it is no solution at all. To me, the openness of the web shouldn’t be something that people just consider, or are amenable to. It should be the foundation in which all reasonable proposals should consider as a principle truth.

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ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How “open” a website is, is up to the owner, and that’s all. Unless we’re talking about de-privatizing the internet as a whole, here.

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- tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  How “open” a website is, is up to the owner, and that’s all.
  
  As someone who registered this account on this platform in response to Reddit’s API restrictions, it would be hypocritical of me to accept such a belief.
  
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  - ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Well, until we abolish capitalism, that’s the state of things. Unless you feel like Nazis MUST be freely given access to everything too?
    
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    tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Well, until we abolish capitalism, that’s the state of things.
    
    I can see that things are the way things are. Accepting it is a different matter.
    
    Unless you feel like Nazis MUST be freely given access to everything too?
    
    To me, the “access” that I am referring to (the interface with which you gain access to a service) and that “access” (your behavior once you have gained access to a service) are different topics. The same distinction can be made with the concern over DoS attacks mentioned earlier in the thread. The user’s behavior of overwhelming a site’s traffic is the root concern, not the interface that the user is connecting with.
    
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