You've once again repeated the same line about "culture wars". How exactly is this different from any other tool? Should VS Code hit up an error if you write co

You've once again repeated the same line about "culture wars". How exactly is this different from any other tool? Should VS Code hit up an error if you write code to check in a regex for /liberal tears/? How about s/hitler//g? As far as I can see in the announcement, the tool itself does not present any particular viewpoint. Is filtering out PII data now all of a sudden part of some sort of culture war? Given the wide availability of "open source" models (in quotes because, while they're freely available, I don't believe they follow in the same spirit of true open source, with reproducible builds, etc), you can build an AI/LLM to do whatever you like, whether it's illegal in your locality or not. CloudFlare's customers want some sort of functionality to put guardrails around their LLM deployments, and they are offering it. As you say, companies that contract with CF are "allowed" to use this tool; CloudFlare is not mandating the use of the tool. Is infrastructure truly neutral? If so, you should read about how the Taliban (owner of the .af TLD) unilaterally deregistered the domain name `queer.af`. CloudFlare has famously deplatformed the Daily Stormer.