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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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I honestly fail to see what's wrong with CF offering a separate public DNS that adheres to their own morality standards. Morality is subjective, and when building such service you obviously can't please everyone.

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According to them, providing services which filter the available content based on their morality isn't what they believe in doing. They consider it moral to provide Kiwi Farms with resources reducing costs because they seem to somehow see what they do there as political speech.

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They say it would be extremely problematic for them to filter content because they see themselves as core infrastructure like DNS. They offer filtered DNS with filters almost entirely based on what third parties decide counts as adult content. That's not their own morality.

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Would you say the same about malware filtering services like 1.1.1.2?

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