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by sph 393 days ago
Holy nanny state. The authors of a language have thought about using cryptocurrency, so it's flagged as a phishing and scam site? Literally 1984.
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It's a community maintained block list. You may be able to do something about it. So, not 1984 all the way.
It gives you a way to proceed anyway, and is opt-in, and not run by any government. How is that “nanny state”? Also, given that it doesn’t torture and murder people, it’s not quite 1984 either.
That message was created by... the state?