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Alas you're not aware of my pro-SWer work; but I also believe that Cloudflare is on the path to be less censorious — if only civil society can stop trying to make them moreso. The general problem, though, is this:

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Alec Muffett

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Cloudflare expressed their regret for dropping the Daily Stormer and 8chan. They didn't express any regret for the many sites associated with sex workers they've blocked. They literally run censorship-as-a-service (1.1.1.3) and push for schools / libraries to adopt it...

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You're also simply making another disingenuous argument. There is no slippery slope from blocking a site which openly exists for the purpose of doxxing / harassing / libelling autistic and trans people. Cloudflare is still enforcing their ToS for sex workers, but not Kiwi Farms.

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I concur that it's a travesty, and my suspicion is that it's somehow related to the Exodus-Cry (and related organisations) crusade against SWer payment mechanisms. Calling for *more* censorship, just of people who *we* deem worthy of it, is not a progressive step.

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Kiwi Farms is not political speech. Kiwi Farms is a doxxing, harassment and libel forum which openly exists for the purpose of pushing their targets out of society and trying to get them to kill themselves. Kiwi Farms is used to silence free speech through illegal aggression.

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Cloudflare's CDN hosts their content at their edge nodes around the world and serves it from there. It masks the origin server IP making it difficult to determine the origin server hosting service. They provide the option to keep serving content when the origin server goes down.

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Silencing doxxing, harassment and libel is not silencing any legitimate speech. Kiwi Farms is also not simply a place where that occurs. It doesn't simply have bad moderation. It's the purpose of the site and the admins/moderators don't just encourage it but participate/lead it.

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Still waiting for an answer to this one:

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This is nonsensical. How does Planned Parenthood relate to a site that harasses marginalized people and brags about their kill count?

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The people who want to turn America into a "Handmaid's Tale" cosplay faire and theme-park, will point at PP and say "that site harasses marginalized unborn people and brags about their kill-count"

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Stop talking about yourself in the 3rd person. It's you making the claim that Kiwi Farms is political speech and that it's in any way comparable to that. You think doxxing/harassment/libel targeting trans and autistic people to get them to kill themselves is political speech.

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> It's you making the claim that Kiwi Farms is political speech Where, precisely? I'm not attempting to distinguish political or any other protected form of speech. Planned Parenthood likewise is not likely to be political speech.

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You're explicitly stating right here that you think doxxing, harassing and libelling people is protected speech. You're openly stating that you think it's valid to dox, harass and libel autistic and trans people and that it qualifies as protected. That's your position on this.

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I'm content that I've actively improved the means of communications for marginalised people around the world. It's because of that, that I feel free to point at hue-and-cry for censorship which may [will] have catastrophic side effects.