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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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I never knew about this that's fucked up wtf

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Here's their apology for something they are still doing: blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-th Supposedly you can report sites they shouldn't be blocking and they'll fix it case-by-case. The entire thing is moral policing from the beginning and they're blocking a lot more than just porn.

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The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today

Today we made a mistake. The mistake caused a number of LGBTQIA+ sites to inadvertently be blocked by the new 1.1.1.1 for Families service. I wanted to walk through what happened, why, and what we've...

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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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Switter, one of the last online spaces friendly to sex workers, was just banned by its network

Safe havens continue to dwindle post-FOSTA as Cloudflare boots the Mastodon instance

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You're ignoring the reason for that: the FOSTA law, and how poorly it was written.

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preemptive compliance is the road to fascism

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yeah but it's also the road to not going to jail

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This is civil law, not criminal law. The only thing they risked was an extremely unlikely scenario where they had to pay money to victims of sex trafficking. Banning sites that are strongly against sex trafficking isn't protecting themselves from that.

4:12 AM · Sep 1, 2022Twitter Web App

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