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A comment on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach. Parent comment

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by yanderekko on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:25AM (#32663368)
>It was an economic issue, not a political one.

The two can't be disentangled. Woke censorship is often justified through economic self-interest nowadays. Do you really believe activists 20 years ago would be placated if ISPs had simply promised to throttle only based on politics rather than economics?

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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by sealeck on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:49AM (#32663828)
Hosting content and distributing it are different things (in the same way that printing letters for someone is very different to operating a mail service carrying everyone's letters).
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by gunapologist99 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:52PM (#32668209)
This is the point that Cloudflare is making in TFA.
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