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

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by Borgz on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:42AM (#32663708)
This policy seems to only apply to content that they host. It appears that they don't intend to apply this policy to websites that they are only providing DDoS mitigation to, such as KiwiFarms.

Whether Cloudflare is hosting the content or mitigating DDoS attacks against it, they bear some responsibility for the content being accessible. I see no good reason for them to have different policies between their hosting and DDoS mitigation services if they actually care about not propagating the content they refuse to host.

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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by mjr00 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:44AM (#32663738)
> I think one easy thing they could do, is stop hosting for forums dedicated to doxxing and harassing people

> This policy seems to only apply to content that they host.

Yes, which is exactly what the parent commenter was saying.

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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by mjr00 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:58AM (#32664042)
Words have meaning. If you want to understand the difference between hosting and providing security services, here's a good article: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-a...
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