Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by fennecfoxen on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:39PM (#23899484)

Yes, and then they banned 8Chan just the same (I think? One of those sites where a shooter talked to his friends) as soon as they were under pressure.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by LordDragonfang on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:57PM (#23900262)

If I'm not mistaken, 8Chan also hosted a lot of illegal content in addition to that "legal speech".

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:23PM (#23901514)

And yet, it was not for anything illegal that they were taken down.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by kbenson on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:04PM (#23903983)

I don't know if it's how it played out, but it's easy to see how increased scrutiny could have lead to the illegal content being highlighted and them getting dropped because it was then reported (possibly many times by many parties that wanted the site shut down for other reasons).

In that case, they still would have been taken down because of the illegal content, even if at an (extremely simplistic) surface level the timing seems to indicate otherwise.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by debacle on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:29PM (#23900007)

Likely the reddit model. Don't ban anything until it hits you in the pocket book.

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