I know several people working as software engineers at Cloudflare. According to one of them, this incident (blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-th) was hardly a mistake. Cloudflare is including block lists sourced from far right evangelical groups as part of their 'family friendly' DNS service.
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Cloudflare is aware their 'family friendly' DNS (1.1.1.3) isn't blocking sites like Kiwi Farms (kiwifarms . net) or Daily Stormer (stormer-daily . rw). It's a deliberate decision, despite their blog post claiming their filtering is meant to mimic SafeSearch, which filters them.
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Cloudflare has not stopped using block lists sourced from hateful groups. They only stopped including the subsets explicitly marked for that purpose. Easy to see why getting porn block lists from groups producing LGBTQ block lists results in continuing to "mistakenly" block more.
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Cloudflare presents themselves as champions of free speech while providing a politically biased censorship service and encouraging by schools and libraries to adopt it. They've banned lots of legal content like Switter from DDoS mitigation services. They aren't pro-free-speech.
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> I know several people working as software engineers at Cloudflare. According to one of them
anything to back that statement
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That's because the people running cloudflare agree with those far right groups.
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