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Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by contravariant on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:08PM (#32707978)
I guess what makes it difficult in this case is that the amount of power CF has is so great that any use of that power is immediately troubling.

It's a bit like if pretty much all security guards were under the control of a single company and that company denied services to a person under threat, and in this analogy there's no government to fill the gap.

Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by voganmother42 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @09:34PM (#32708776)
But there are alternatives, cloudflare isn’t the government, they don’t even have a monopoly.

How is this different from people complaining about facebook not hosting their content - take your stuff to some other private entity that wants to do business with you, these are not institutions which have any obligation or mission beyond making money - even if they like to make PR noises that may be misconstrued otherwise.

“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”