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Who do we want censoring the Internet? - DNS providers - Internet backbones - Internet service providers to the home - DDoS defense services - Social media like Twitter - App stores like Google Play - Content providers like YouTube Any? All? Some?

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Jeremiah Grossman

@jeremiahg

Aug 31

Replying to @ErrataRob

Let's nuance and flan the flames a bit more. Whomever we want to censor the Internet needs to be able to read the content. Goodbye end-to-end encryption.

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and @ErrataRob

I disagree on this one. It's a particularly virulent hate group, and Cloudflare doesn't need to read the content. They have a chorus of folks reporting about it. This doesn't slippery-slope into a privacy nightmare. Just like it didn't last time Cloudflare booted a hate group.

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and @ErrataRob

Cloudflare terminates the TLS connections at their edge nodes. Encryption is from user to Cloudflare and sometimes Cloudflare to the origin server. They cache the content, make modifications to it and serve it from their edge nodes. They's hosting the content on each edge node.

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