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twitter.com/DanielMicay/st Cloudflare's censored 1.1.1.3 which supposedly exists to provide family friendly internet does not block Kiwi Farms or the Daily Stormer. It mostly blocks porn and still blocks some non-porn LGBT content despite them 'fixing' it (blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-th).

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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 is cloudflare though? Its a DNS server that firewalls adult content. Similar to 1.1.1.2 which integrates a virus checker into the firewall (also owned by cloudflare)

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Kiwi Farms is clearly 'adult content' but isn't filtered while content that clearly isn't adult content such as quite a lot of LGBT information sites are filtered.

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Could i get an example though? Cause most reports (all i found) of LGBTQ info sites being falsely blocked are pretty old Apparently the blocklists are based on google safe search. (Which doesnt block kiwifarms either) What i find more sus here is 1.1.1.2 cause theres 0 info.

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The blocklists are not based on Google SafeSearch. What they state is that their goal was to make something with comparable filtering to Google SafeSearch, which does not have the same kind of issues with blocking LGBTQ content and blocks sites like Kiwi Farms and Daily Stormer.

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Src: blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-th "While we had specifically reviewed the Adult Content category to ensure that it was narrowly tailored to mirror the Google SafeSearch/CIPA definition"

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blog.cloudflare.comThe Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites TodayToday 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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They tried to make something similar and did a really poor job of it. It isn't based on Google SafeSearch. They have no access to how Google SafeSearch works and it's fundamentally not based on it.

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Also, as they state in their own post, they obtain data used for the filtering from a company which provides filtering for LGBTQ content and classifies it as adult content. Do you think that company is unbiased towards LGBTQ content and it's a 'mistake' stuff is still blocked?

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At least one of their data sources Cloudflare openly admits to using directly sells blocking LGBTQ content as a service and block it by default as part of 'adult content'. Cloudflare 'mistakenly' used the full block list from this company at launch and then narrowed it down more.

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Cloudflare acts as if they put a lot of effort into a narrow definition of adult content, but again, at launch, nearly all LGBTQ content was blocked, and a lot of it is still being blocked. People report it to them and they gradually unblock it but it's a recurring issue...

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They clearly did not put in much effort or do much testing of their supposedly well implemented narrow definition for that to happen. They're either completely incompetent at managing the filtering or they're not being truthful about why it shipped as blocking almost all of it.

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It is extremely likely that - like every other "internet filtering" provider - they are using a blocking feed from a third party and applying their own overrides on top. Pretty much all of those third parties just *happen* to be "Christian family values" type organizations.

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TL;DR the blocking of LGBTQ+ content is not a mistake, nor an incident, it is very much a deliberate policy among the evangelical organizations that are *actually* collating these lists behind the scenes. And anyone doing business with them is complicit in this.

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