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by sascha_sl 1340 days ago
No, but Cloudflare and several other ISPs will not drop you simply because a large volume of people complains. This doesn't work like Twitter moderation. The quality of these complaints warrants not wanting those people associated with you.
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josephcsible 1340 days ago
> Cloudflare and several other ISPs will not drop you simply because a large volume of people complains.

Yes they will. This is the example of them literally doing exactly that.

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insanitybit 1340 days ago
Not according to Cloudflare. Ironically, once Kiwifarms started harassing Cloudflare employees that's when Cloudflare removed them.
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sascha_sl 1340 days ago
Then why are they still hosting several sites that people complain about it all the time too. Cloudflare loves providing services to Nazis as long as they don't get themselves associated with mass shootings too often in the same small time window (8chan) or your Infosec hire turns out to be associated with some of the Nazis who claim they have inside help to stay on Cloudflare. (Daily Stormer)

Infowars is literally on Cloudflare right now.

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rvz 1340 days ago
So is Gab, and they are also using Cloudflare. They also have their own ASN and have been sitting on Hurricane Electric (HE) for years despite all the calls to 'deplatform' them, which like I expected Kiwifarms to move to Epik for their domain, they will also move to HE or elsewhere.

I guess Gab is not villain of the month to be deplatformed today.

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sascha_sl 1340 days ago
Gab is simply irrelevant in the big picture.
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rvz 1339 days ago
That's beside the point. Even so, it is as 'irrelevant' as Mastodon is regardless.

The whole point is, Cloudflare still has them as a customer despite all the chaos that has happened with Gab in the past and despite the calls and previous failed attempts to deplatform and wipe them off the internet, they are still there using Epik, HE and I predict that KiwiFarms will follow suit.

Until the next time one of them becomes the villain of the month, then we'll see the same calls, deplatforming attempts once again.

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immibis 1340 days ago
It's not simply because a large volume of people complained.
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orangepurple 1340 days ago
Then sue them in US court. They are a US company.
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