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Cloudflare drops sites from their service on a daily basis for having content they dislike. They remove sites with adult content, support for sex workers, etc. They also drop sites they deem to be posting spam. Cloudflare's censored 1.1.1.3 DNS blocks lots of LGBT content, etc.

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Daniel Micay

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They're too cowardly to stand behind their decisions so they won't mention sites like Kiwi Farms by name. Their official accounts and executives all have their replies disabled on Twitter to shut down dissent. Their free speech act is a ridiculous sham. They drop lots of sites.

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Daniel Micay

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Cloudflare does FAR MORE content moderation than required by law. They aren't a free speech host. They remove speech they disagree with every day. They host Kiwi Farms because they support the content on it. They dropped sites used by sex workers because they consider it immoral.

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I agree with your broader points, but I didn't think they had taken a moral/philosophical stance on sex workers, I thought that they dropped those because of liability under FOSTA-SESTA? Sex workers being legally riskier than KF is outrageous in its own right, of course.

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They were not required to take down those sites by those laws. They used it as a justification, but they were not required or asked to take them down. They prove that's not the case every day by hosting literal terrorist organization sites, sanctioned entites, Kiwi Farms, etc.

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I'm just saying that, to my knowledge, they haven't publicly cited immorality as the reason for taking down "adult" content. I was wondering if I'd missed somewhere they did say that explicitly.

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They definitely weren't legally required to take it down, so what other explanation is there for it?

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