Cloudflare Just Banned a Social Media Refuge for Thousands of Sex Workers https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloudflare-banned-sex-workers-sesta-fosta
@angristan So probably the most outrageous thing is that literally the only other case of them shutting anyone down was the white supremacist site. Implicitly saying that sex workers are as bad as white supremacists. Smh
@thufir @Gargron @angristan any hacker conference with a strong digital human rights bend. CCC, IFF, etc.
@rysiek @Gargron @angristan corporate policing at its finest.
When your aim is to be the middleman between everything and everyone, you don't really have that luxury.
when they banned the nazis, they took years to finally do it and the ceo had an existential crisis over it
they banned switter on a whim and the ceo isn't having a meltdown
they're saying sex workers are *worse* than white supremacists
@vi @angristan @Gargron that's not really the case. Dropping hate groups isn't necessarily a legal issue, but, at least in the US after recent laws, dropping switter absolutely is a legal issue. When it comes to priorities for companies, legal always trumps moral, right or wrong. The problem here is with US law, not Cloudflare. I for one am glad a decentralized solution exists so the people can just find another DNS provider and continue on expressing their freedom.
There's no law making it illegal to do the same immediate public handwringing they did after banning the nazis.
@vi @angristan @Gargron @badstate yes, this. no law forbids them from making a fucking ruckus about having their hand forced in that way. staying silent and not issuing a warning *was* a choice.
@Gargron @angristan the irony is that even if they did have issue with the content, it is probably syndicated across the Fediverse and served up by other instances that are using Cloudflare as a CDN. They really couldn't avoid serving the content unless they stopped services on every instance.
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@Gargron @angristan switter.at seems up and running from my end? So I assume they're just not behind Cloudflare anymore?
Yeah, another link to add to my long list of "don't rely on corporate overlords"