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JD557 ◴[] No.16728535[source]
I wish that they talked a bit more about their stance regarding censorship. They have a small paragraph talking about the problem, but they don't talk about the "solution".

While Cloudflare has been pretty neutral about censoring sites in the past (notably, pirate sites), the Daily Stormer incident put them in a though spot[1].

They talk a bit about Project Galileo (the link is broken BTW, it should be https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo), but their examples do not mention topics that would be controversial in western societies, and the site is quite vague. Would they also protect sites like sci-hub, for example?

While I would rather use a DNS not owned by Google, I have never seen any site blocked by them, including sites with a nation-wide block. I hope that Cloudflare is able to do the same thing.

1: https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-doesnt-want-daily-storme...

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1. rsync ◴[] No.16733194[source]
"I wish that they talked a bit more about their stance regarding censorship. They have a small paragraph talking about the problem, but they don't talk about the "solution"."

I think there's a good way to put this to the test - establish a DNS "mixer" that will randomly direct DNS requests to either 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or (whatever) and let the public have access to it.

In this way, Cloudflare would bear some small expense from processing these DNS requests (essentially zero) but would receive no information about the initial requestor.

It would be interesting to run this experiment and perhaps see some real traffic on the DNS mixer ... and then see how cloudflare responds.

Would they block the mixer ?