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by mhoad 1305 days ago
This is the same company that has repeatedly gone to the mat to ensure Nazi’s and targeted hate campaigns remain active online. But this is where they draw the line?

They have on multiple occasions had long and public campaigns talking about how important it is to fight censorship in all its forms except a random DMCA troll in Hong Kong?

I don’t think Cloudflare really love “free speech” as much as they pretend in their public messaging.

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They’ve never gone to the mat to defend free speech. They make a public statement indicating the discomfort they feel blocking content and then they censor it a few days later.
They have in this case https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731108822077443 I don't have the case docket link easily available, but it was referenced somewhere around that thread.
They draw the line on a legal request. You don't want them to break the law, do you? There's a difference between pulling content off due to your disfavor of the content itself and legal requests to take it off.
They weren't hosting anything..
Listen, the stuff is on their hard drives, being served by their servers through their public IP addresses. I don't care whatever backend method they use to update their cache from some other origin, by all accounts they are hosting and serving it.
It's not on their hard drives.

Why don't you go and complain to Telco providers, and undersea cable infra for forwarding pro-nazi bits.

You know exactly what I mean here. I’m going to update the post though.