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Kuro5hin is Dead

posted by takyon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the 死ぬ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:

The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.

I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:57PM (#340897)

    Opening up Cuba. Blocking Iranian nukes. Obamacare. Dismantled the Minerals Management Service (one of the oil industry's crony agencies). Blocked tax inversions for off-shoring tax havens (which immediately killed the $160B pfizer 'merger'). Created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau despite wallstreet fighting it tooth and nail. Halted deportation of "DREAMers" as well as parents of legal residents. Ended federal funding for abstinence-only sex ed and ended the reagan-era "global gag rule" blocking funding of foreign family planning groups that offer or even talk about abortion. Reversed the growth of federal prison population for the first time in 30+ years. Etc, etc, etc.

    The only reason you think its just "business-as-usual" is because you don't have any idea of the actual changes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:25PM (#340968)

    You left one off the list: Destroyed America.

    Get a brain moran.

    • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday May 03 2016, @07:04PM

      by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @07:04PM (#340984)

      You left one off the list: Destroyed America.

      Get a brain moran.

      Ha ha ha ha ha! America is still there, moron.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:45PM (#341032)

        pretty sure you are a victim of Poe's Law.