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Re:Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial by spaceguillotine on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:48PM (#39347930)
i thought we already saw them enter their villain phase protecting hate groups that took years to turn around before banning kiwi farms and as of 2022, 440 of the most prominent misinformation websites in the world still with CloudFlare protection, it took a mass shooting to get them to stop protecting 8Chan, people shouldn't die before they take action.

Most of tech is firmly in their villain phase and has been for years, its dollars over everything. Even ycombinator backed Stripe supports hate groups as a payment processor see: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-and-tech

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Re:Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial by jimkoen on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:30PM (#39349194)
> it took a mass shooting to get them to stop protecting 8Chan

While I agree with moving against bad actors on the internet, it's not CloudFlares role to play the censor. Let's be real, legislators and law enforcement already have the tools available to move against these type of platforms and pushing corporations into censorship gives me the same kind of vibes like when politicians ask for ever increasing (and useless) surveillance and empowerment in law enforcement capabilities.

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Re:Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial by hsuduebc2 on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:00PM (#39348098)
You got a point. Yesterday this post which was trending on hacker news mentioned that cloudflare was defending not revealing identity of people at court that were stalking and literally destroying someones live with swatting. I wouldn't say they are soulles corporation like google. Their attitude is somehow problematic yet admirable.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/swat...

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Re:Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial by Exoristos on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:27PM (#39350008)
Since when were internet companies part of law enforcement?
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