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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!

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?

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.