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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 assume 1.1.1.3 also blocks KF

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1.1.1.3 does not block Kiwi Farms.

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Huh, that's a problem

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It doesn't block the Daily Stormer either, a neo-nazi news site previously banned from Cloudflare. Cloudflare's recent blog post about this implies they wouldn't ban them again and regret banning them.

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The blog post seemed to pertain only to their DDoS protection, but this is concerning

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Cloudflare's DDoS protection is provided by their caching reverse proxy, which hosts content on their edge nodes and serves it from there. There is no separation between Cloudflare's CDN and DDoS protection. It's the same service. They do not provide a traditional web hosting.

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Ah, last sentence, got it.

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Cloudflare's pull-based CDN (caching reverse proxy) is what provides DDoS protection. That's the service which they banned Switter from using. They were not the ones hosting the origin servers for Switter. That's not part of what Cloudflare provides to websites.