I know a lot of people are mad at CloudFlare, but I don't understand the outrage at them.
They handled this poorly (very poorly) regarding appropriate notice, but they did what they've always done. They follow the law.
The law in this case is stupid and I disagree with it, but expecting CloudFlare to break the law on your behalf is unrealistic.
Be mad at the fuckers who passed these laws.
@nixy remember cloudflare made this bed by banning dailystormer. Prior to that they could argue they were acting in a bent pipe capacity, but by opening that can of worms they have to accept responsibility for content.
This is why free speech is important. Claiming moral victory today over controlling speech only leaves us open to being fucked by governments in the future.
@stevelord
The daily stormer did open a whole can of worms, but that's not really related to what happened with Switter.
Cloudflare has always removed illegal content (copyright, trademark, CSAM) and worked with regular hosting companies in those cased.
The only thing that happened here was content that was illegal was getting purged. This isn't surprising considering Switter was designed explicitly to get around SESTA/FOSTA