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It isn't suppression of information, its not taking part in re-broadcasting (emphasis on re) it. If this was AWS banning Parler where AWS was the origin, then you might have a point.


> It isn't suppression of information, its not taking part in re-broadcasting (emphasis on re) it.

So, it sounds like you're in agreement that Cloudflare's role here is fairly impartial; they're not editorializing or supplementing the KiwiFarms data with any of their own opinions or biases. They take no part in the creation of this material, just the preservation of it. So, where do we draw this line? Should we remove Terry A. Davis' videos off the Internet Archive for intolerable racism and encouraging hateful behavior? Or maybe we should delete all the GNU projects because the public opinion on Stallman has changed of late? I simply don't follow this line of logic; there is nothing to gain from de-platforming this content. They'd only be giving them a reason to reincarnate as a Matrix server or Onion domain, and good luck getting your self-conscious service providers to take out the trash when that happens.

I despise Cloudflare from the bottom of my blackened heart, but seeing people think a Twitter campaign is going to stop a forum from existing is silly. We're begging for an "Epik" situation, where a replacement pops up with the sole purpose of catering to extremist politics. Congratulations, now nobody wins.




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