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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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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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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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Cloudflare also tries to mislead people about what their services provide in order to pretend they don't host content like Kiwi Farms. The reality is that Cloudflare hosts Kiwi Farms content on their servers. They store content and serve it from their CDN. It's a hosting service.

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If Cloudflare truly believed in near absolute free speech and allowed anything legal, that would be a different situation than what's happening. Kiwi Farms content isn't even legal. Openly coordinating that level of extreme harassment/doxxing/libel campaigns isn't legal content.

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sites that believe in near absolute free speech suffer a worse fate - they get their AWS accounts terminated, their apps pulled from the stores, and their data leaked by vigilante hackers

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how is letting coordinated doxxing, harassment, and libel go unchecked any better? like, I'm not denying that this is a problem, but multiple problems can exist you know

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Kiwi Farms largely exists to silence speech through aggression. They explicitly state that their aim is make people lose their jobs and feel they have to withdraw from society because they don't conform to what Kiwi Farms considers normal. Hosting it isn't pro-free-speech at all.

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What’s the most detestable yet legal site you can imagine that would be pro-free-speech to host