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by calahad 1387 days ago
The kiwi response states emphatically that they were deleted
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Then if the site promptly deleted allegedly unlawful content, why was it deplatformed by CF?
the twitter pressure campaign
It could be the threats from their more important clients https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1565026728241614849
Interestingly, that thread gives no indication (other than the date it was written) whether the user is mad at CloudFlare for enacting censorship or for the lack of censorship.
For the same reason thieves go to prison after returning stolen goods.
Unlawful content gets posted to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. all the time. We don't deplatform all of them just because there was a window of time in which it was posted but not yet removed.
Their value proposition outweighs the harm.
Value of Facebook?
The burden of proof is on the interlocutor to disprove the value of a Fortune 500 company, yes.
Google exists.