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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by cowtools on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:05PM (#32664190)
The law describes DDoS attacks as a felony. The technology makes it such that it's infeasable to prevent DDoS attacks without a centralized entity like cloudflare.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by sascha_sl on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:10PM (#32664265)
But that still doesn't make Cloudflare the fire brigade. It is still their policy decision to value the freedom of speech of Kiwifarms more than the safety of those KF target, no matter how much they try to pretend they have an obligation to protect everyone that asks for it and are thus not at all partially responsible for enabling harassment - to the point of suicide in at least 3 cases. They don't have to protect them. That responsibility would be with lawmakers and the executive branch. Just as it would be their responsibility to enable feasible prosecution of defamation on the site. They don't do either.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:41PM (#32666533)
> But that still doesn't make Cloudflare the fire brigade.

Why not? That particular service seems a lot like a volunteer fire brigade.

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by sascha_sl on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:27AM (#32673146)
Are the Proud Boys like a volunteer fire brigade because they provide "security services" too?
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:42AM (#32678048)
The fact that you have to use scare quotes makes it clear that the answer is no. So I'm not sure what your point is.