Maybe it's a good thing we restrict this to registered users only

Maybe it's a good thing we restrict this to registered users only (catbox.moe)

submitted 5.3 years ago by the_illusive_man

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SomeRandomeUser2017 5.3 years ago

Free speech is for everyone. Restricting the site does more harm than good because it is one less opposing opinion to MSM. Ideally there is a solution to the ddos so the site restrictions can be lifted. Keeping the site on lock down turns it into an echo chamber no better than Reddit.

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krockery 5.3 years ago

Restricting the site does more harm than good

No; read /u/puttitout's post. If he didn't have it restricted the site would be totally offline due to coordinated attacks.

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SomeRandomeUser2017 5.3 years ago

For the interim restricting it is a solution but that kind of defeats the purpose of Voat being a free speech platform if it's user base can no longer grow. Long term it turns into an echo chamber. An option I saw mentioned elsewhere was to mirror content and host elsewhere read only which at least makes the content publically available. I have seen a few other options to mitigate the attacks and have it be unrestricted again by decentralizing the site or follow a p2p format but that makes accessibility too complex for the average user.

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