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My only interaction with cloudflare's "Trust and Safety" team involved reporting a site using their services, and that site hosted a large archive of child porn
by throwawayforcf 4y ago
My only interaction with cloudflare's "Trust and Safety" team involved reporting a site using their services, and that site hosted a large archive of child pornography [1], for which I provided a sizable chunk of evidence, which would have let them easily verify my claim.
All I got back was a canned response that cloudflare is not actually hosting anything and cannot do anything and will forward my complaint to the ISP that really hosts the website.
Replying back to that email, asking whether they couldn't at least close the cloudflare account in question, I was greeted with exactly the same canned response again.
Responses form law enforcement I tried were also rather underwhelming, but that isn't cloudflare's fault.
This was a while ago, and it all was rather discouraging.
And I can only hope they got their act together now...
But I guess not. I just checked, and the site is online again, under the same domain, and using cloudflare again. I'll report them again now, I think.
[1] Including a lot of the child porn this UK blackmailer had traded and sold: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-59614734 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-59614734
The site I reported was re-selling the stuff for crypto or gift cards, with a lot of free samples.
Now you may wonder why in hell I would even know about any of this. I used to be a small time moderator on a small time website where some of our users shared some of the content/links to the content.
- thaumaturgy 4y agoI don't understand why it's so hard for companies to discriminate between sites like your example and sites like my example. This part of hosting actually worked better back when we were all using GoDaddy and Bluehost and the like.
- tyingq 4y agoMaybe report through the IWF? https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/how-we-assess-and-remove-content/ https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/how-we-assess-and-remove-con... Cloudflare apparently signed up as a member in August of 2021: https://www.iwf.org.uk/membership/our-members/cloudflare/ https://www.iwf.org.uk/membership/our-members/cloudflare/
- throwawayforcf 4y agoGood suggestion. Filed a report with them as well now. Cloudflare in the meantime gave me another canned response, saying they aren't hosting anything, etc, but at least this time they also included this: > This email is to confirm that your abuse report to Cloudflare has been received and will be processed shortly.
- e40 4y agoIf they didn't give a crap about CP, what the heck did they think OP did?