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They hide behind proxies, VPN, Tor. They obviously don't care about the harm they do to their victims, and the judicial system is mostly powerless to find, even less prosecutes these trolls online.

This is simply a reaction to an extreme that obviously doesn't care about the law, combined with a judicial system that is way behind the times technologically.



Well, there are anti-terrorist task forces in various countries. FBI alone has stopped many threats and continue to do that quite effectively. Federal law enforcement can lawfully work with corporations.

> This is simply a reaction to an extreme that obviously doesn't care about the law, combined with a judicial system that is way behind the times technologically.

Seems naive and glib, there should be a higher bar for throwing the baby + bathwater, the entire justice system, that has served for over 245 years just fine.


And still, trolls are abusing law enforcement response against their own citizens by swatting them. Call me cynical, but the system is broken, and there's gotta be some pushback one way or the other.


KiwiFarms has been convicted of terrorism in New Zealand IIRC, & rightly banned.

Is that good enough for you?


And can by trivially bypassed using a VPN.


What does this have even slightly to do with the fact a nation declared them terrorists?




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