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>if they start sticking their fingers into sites and determining whether the site's content is "appropriate" or whatever They already pick and choose. They ha
by dogleash 5mo ago
>if they start sticking their fingers into sites and determining whether the site's content is "appropriate" or whatever
They already pick and choose. They have not decided to sit outside of it. Any claim about them not getting involved should be read as tacit approval. Because we know they will drop users they sufficiently disapprove of.
- iamnothere 5mo agoThey have done this one time and the CEO said he regretted it.
- transitorykris 5mo agoFor reference on that: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-on-the-web https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv...
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoThey have done it at least 3 times: The Daily Stormer, 8chan, and Kiwi Farms
- iamnothere 5mo agoThanks for the correction, I didn’t know they had done it again. Unfortunate that they allowed themselves to be bullied into deplatforming again. DDoS protection should be content-neutral, like electricity service.
- fragmede 5mo agoWhich, the FBI can get the electricity shut off in a hostage situation.
- iamnothere 5mo agoWe’re not talking about a hostage situation, we’re talking about extralegal deplatforming.