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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (10 children)

But ambiguity is the worst thing for a top-level domain. Unknowingly, this decision created an environment in which .su became a digital wild west. Today, it is a barely policed top-level domain, a plausibly deniable home for Russian dark ops and a place where supremacist content and cyber-crime have found cover.

So much drama.

"Supremacist content", "dark ops", "cyber-crime".

"The free world" has recently equated itself to Hitler at least two more times, and somebody's worried that there are places with less censorship.

Also my anecdotal experience with .su domains is better than with .ru domains.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I guess by "cybercrime" they mean piracy, because that's the main thing I've seen .su used for.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Well, the main thing I've seen it used for are old homepages and hobbyist sites with web design from year 1997.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If that's what they mean by cybercrime they're bigger bootlickers than I originally thought. Like it's one thing to not want to support piracy, it's a whole nother thing to outright say the quiet part out loud. Which, yeah that's what they just did if that's what they really meant. It's already bad enough that they supposedly want domains to be aggressively policed, I mean like I said in my other comment, serious "no swearing allowed on the internet vibes" going on from how they wrote that part...

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