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Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by SilverElfin on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:39PM (#45975252)
I’m surprised by how quickly they put together a post mortem, let alone how quickly they were willing to publish it to the world.

Meanwhile, on X, white nationalist supremacists / Groypers / America First America Only types are spreading a conspiracy theory that Cloudflare’s outage was caused by having too many Indians employees and H1Bs. Example:

https://xcancel.com/DiggingInTheDi1/status/19908503102026673...

This is far from the only one such post, but what’s amusing / horrifying is that this belief is getting millions of likes across all these posts.

Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by mh- on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:02PM (#45975364)
Why give this sort of content more visibility/reach?

I'm sure that's not your intent, so I hope my comment gives you an opportunity to reflect on the effects of syndicating such stupidity, no matter what platform it comes from.

Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by SilverElfin on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:21PM (#45975471)
Mainly to make others aware of what’s happening in the context of this Cloudflare outage. Sure I can avoid giving it visibility/reach but it’s growing and proliferating on its own, and I think ignoring it isn’t going to stop it so I am hoping awareness will help. I’ve noticed a huge rise in open racism against Chinese and Indian and workers of other origin, even when they’re here on a legal visa that we have chosen as a nation to grant for our own benefit.

The legislation that MTG (Marjorie Taylor Green) just proposed a few days ago to ban H1B entirely, and the calls to ban other visa types, is going to have a big negative impact on the tech industry and American innovation in general. The social media stupidity is online but it gives momentum to the actual real life legislation and other actions the administration might take. Many congress people are seeing the online sentiment and changing their positions in response, unfortunately.

Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by mh- on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:23PM (#45975485)
Fair points; there's certainly a balance to be struck between raising awareness and amplifying, and I admittedly have no idea where that line is.
Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by DoctorOW on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:25AM (#45978740)
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Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by bigyabai on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @01:28PM (#45983090)
FWIW it seems pretty obvious that this was ragebait. OP's profile is pretty much non-stop commentary on politics with nearly zero comments or submissions pertaining to the broader tech industry.

Posts like that deserve to be flagged if the sum of their substance is jingoist musing & ogling dumb people on Twitter.