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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maybe they meant mimic as in terms of the monster and not the notion of imitation.
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It sounds to me like Cloudflare is working hard to help the next generation of bigots, white supremacists, fascists, and school shooters get radicalized
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