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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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Do you have a source on them dropping other sites - was that from DDOS protection or something else?

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twitter.com/DanielMicay/st is one of many examples and tweet before it is about their censored DNS service blocking adult content. They were also blocking non-porn LGBT content and still do block a fair bit of it even after they supposedly fixed it and apologized for it.

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One of the sex worker sites they banned from their main services was just a Mastadon instance for sex workers to talk to each other (Switter). They banned that, but not Kiwi Farms. theverge.com/2018/4/19/1725 Government never ordered them to ban this. It was entirely their choice.

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Thanks, that's shocking

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This is a consequence of FOSTA-SESTA and Cloudflare trying to protect itself legally. It’s basically an extension of why sex workers came out against the bill.

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That's their justification for it but they have a huge amount of money and legal resources. Many hosting companies chose not to do this. Cloudflare, 'champion of free speech', chose to preemptively take down a bunch of sites tied to sex workers despite little real legal risk.

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This may blow your mind, but even when companies have “huge amounts of money and legal resources” they tend not to want to use them unless the end result will make them more money, and when the plaintiff is the fed. gov., they’re up against more money and legal resources.

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They're hosting content for the Taliban, a bunch of other US sanctioned entities, etc. not just Kiwi Farms. They don't seem particularly concerned about the legality of what they're doing in other situations. They were in no way legally required to remove Switter, etc.

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So when they say "its the laws job to decide", they dont even follow that? If they would just list the hosting providers etc for sites they proxy, it would at least be possible to do legal proceedings in host country or make ToS complaints. But ofc they dont even do that 🤔

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