The key piece of info from the ProPublica article is: > For instance, when a reader figures out that Cloudflare is the internet company serving sites like The

The key piece of info from the ProPublica article is: > For instance, when a reader figures out that Cloudflare is the internet company serving sites like The Daily Stormer, they sometimes write to the company to protest. Cloudflare, per its policy, then relays the name and email address of the person complaining to the hate site, often to the surprise and regret of those complaining. I think this could have been better written (you can tell it's biased due to it stating, "relays the name... to the hate site" [emphasis mine]) and it is company policy to relay this kind of information to the owner of a website, regardless of content. The title and sensationalist writing is unnecessary; it's not like their policy is to secretly send this information to hate sites only, it is to send to any website that gets a report. Essentially the issue that was happening before was that users could submit abuse reports, but these reports couldn't be truly anonymous and the reports were also sent to the website owner. As stated in their blog post from last week [1], they've changed the way it works and now allow truly anonymous reports. One thing to note is that the original abuse form did let users submit fake information because it wasn't verified, but it seems a lot of people didn't pay attention to the disclaimer and gave their real contact info. Additionally, the reasons they forwarded the information to the website is detailed in the blog post. The blog post is a good opposite to the ProPublica article. Also, side question: What is The Root? Is this Gawker for extremely liberal readers, kind of like a shitty, overly sensational Vox? 1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/anonymity-and-abuse-reports/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/anonymity-and-abuse-reports/