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Even though those three website are filth, they have objectively been censored by Cloudflare. What's the confusion here? Just be honest about it and say Cloudflare censors content they don't agree with. Why the tiptoeing around this fact?



I think you are making statements that are stronger than reality.

Cloudflare censors content they don't agree with? I would guess they actually protect a huge volume of content they don't agree with.

And I don't think they have suppressed those sites or gone out of their way to take action against those sites beyond terminating Cloudflare protections. So, to me at least, that doesn't rise to the definition of "censorship".

Just because you state it is a fact doesn't actually make it factual.


Sure, you can roll with this definition of 'censored', but it makes the term almost meaningless.

Would you describe HN as a "censored" forum because they engage in moderation? Even 4chan doesn't allow child porn, would it also be accurately described as censored?

Generally, when we refer to a platform as 'censored' we do so for much stronger reasons than "they've banned a few users/customers in the past".


I'm not that worried since those sites received tons of bad press (for good reason) and were hives of scum and villainy. My main reason is they don't hide your source IP in all cases or provide actual region hiding either. It's a false sense of security.




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