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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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1.1.1.3 blocks adult content, what did you expect?

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They present themselves as free speech champions but run a censored DNS service based on weird ideas of what's moral and appropriate. They've apologized for some of what it was and is doing: blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-th Still filters out a lot of that content despite 'fixing' it.

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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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1.1.1.1 doesn't censor anything as far as I know. 1.1.1.3 is clearly marketed as a family product that blocks adult content. I don't get what you're trying to say here. Adguard also offers a family-friendly DNS, will you go after them next?

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1.1.1.3 uses a very broad definition of adult content blocking much more than porn. It's presented as doing something more narrow than what it actually does in practice. As far as I know Adguard doesn't market themselves as free speech champions to justify hosting Kiwi Farms.

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People who have no idea how hard it is to precisely filter stuff in or out thinking it's malicious lmao

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The filter they used intentionally marked all kinds of LGBT content as being adult content. It wasn't a mistake by the people maintaining the filter. It was intentional. They still use filters from groups who see things that way, they just don't use the *direct* LGBT blocklists.

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> Still filters out a lot of that content despite 'fixing' it. Are you saying that it still filters LGTB+ content after this incident?

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I remember having a discussion about this service, because I dared to question which sites are blocked and why and who decides that. it was the most weird discussion I've ever had.