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 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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