Really, the underlying issue of #DropKiwifarms is that the US has outsourced their hate speech regulation to corporations, and corporations aren't very good at it.
That a website like Kiwi Farms is not obviously illegal is very much a result of that.
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Really hate it when I have to mobilize market forces to stop people from inciting extremely illegal acts but hey, that's US centrism, the only legislature Cloudflare cares about, can't opt out of it.
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German law and law enforcement is very flawed and as selectively applied (more right than left) by the executive as everywhere else, but at least we got Volksverhetzung.
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Cloudflare hosts Kiwi Farms content on their caching reverse proxy edge nodes in Germany too, not only in the US.
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That’s correct, but we have special privileges for caches (not the same as for hosts, those have more obligations). Getting those PoP to not host KF is possible though if you get a court order.
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They aren't only caches. For example, they were serving static content provided by Cloudflare referring to trans people with a suicide-based statistics as one of their common tropes used as hate speech. They were hosting that page. Not a cache.
Like, I’m not arguing in favor of CF here; read my timeline if you have any doubts, but you’re very unlikely to have success leaning on the German judicatory here.