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It's easy to paint Cloudflare's decision to provide security services to all on an equal basis, without regard to content, as a principled stand in favor of content neutrality. It's a cheap and intellectually lazy painting, but an easy one. 'Neutrality' is not neutral here.

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I've had a thread made about me on Kiwi Farms. It's over 300 pages long and has been going for three years. I became a target solely because I supported many women who had been sexually harassed for years by a popular actor. The actor's friends and lawyers actively use the site. twitter.com/oneunderscore_…

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They're not even neutral, they've kicked sites that cater to sex workers off their service in the past for ToS violations. Their CEO is just a facist and likes KF

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I do think that this bit may reflect a *different* kind of bad, it is very very stupid that there is greater legal risk associated with sites for sex workers than with KF, but SESTA is a thing.

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They kicked off Switter which was a Twitter clone for sex workers to talk with each other. They kicked off sites that were simply publishing porn. They act as if the Daily Stormer and 8chan were the only sites they kicked off and imply they regret both. They banned far more.

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Cloudflare provides censored DNS as a service. It 'mistakenly' blocked almost all LGBTQ content at launch. They had to apologize for it. It still blocks a lot of it. twitter.com/DanielMicay/st Why did that happen? Some sources for the list are far right evangelical organizations.

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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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I think if they want to portray themselves as a free speech service they should stop providing censored DNS as a service and shouldn't ban completely legal sites used by sex workers while not banning nazis and doxxing sites. Claiming KF is lower risk is a weak talking point.

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