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0 pointsscrollaway6y ago0 comments

Kicking out and not providing service isn't the same thing as censoring. One is customer-driven, the other is content-driven.

You can kick a customer out because they espouse certain views or whatever, and it's fine to call it discriminatory, but it's not censorship. This isn't usually a relevant distinction, but here it is because Cloudflare hasn't built "a system that is technically possible for someone to censor".

They could, and thank fuck they don't, because that would absolutely be the day I'm getting off Cloudflare.

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stevenicr6y ago

The article mentioned that they are now and have been monitoring content of web sites they route and have been sharing information with various agencies based upon that content.

They have removed at least two portals, and higher up in the thread it is mentioned that they have also axed various sex related sites - and they are providing monitored info to agencies that use courts and guns to force people to do things... that is starting to sound more and more like a censorship system than a dump pipe which prevents overuse (ddos) - to me..

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0 pointsscrollaway6y ago0 comments

Kicking out and not providing service isn't the same thing as censoring. One is customer-driven, the other is content-driven.

They could, and thank fuck they don't, because that would absolutely be the day I'm getting off Cloudflare.

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stevenicr6y ago

The article mentioned that they are now and have been monitoring content of web sites they route and have been sharing information with various agencies based upon that content.

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