I knew about the Nazis, but I wasn't aware Cloudflare defended literal sea pirates? When did that happen? I guess the US Navy?

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sammy2255 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

They don't. And actually, quite hilariously, Somalian pirates raided the Kenyan data center that Cloudflare have their Kenyan PoP in (7 years ago). https://old.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/837c4c/somalian...

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stego-tech 3 days ago | parent [-]

I had missed this and find it deeply hilarious that actual meatspace pirates raided a company’s datacenter that protects digital pirates.

Also, just for folks seemingly confused by my words in the original post: I got no beef with digital piracy myself, just more pointing out that if your company is willfully protecting hate speech (like Nazis) and piracy sites, well, you’re courting a very specific kind of response, and whining about receiving that response after the fact is not exactly sympathetic.

	▲	sammy2255 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah it's not true. It was a joke /r/woosh

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stego-tech 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Folks keep confusing where I used the term “literal” in that sentence. I said “literal Nazis and pirates”, not Nazis and literal pirates.

It’s why I staunchly refuse to touch Cloudflare for fucking anything. When your company defends a group whose ethos is genocide, you’ve lost me forever, free speech be damned.

	▲	kbelder 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		And when your ethos is censorship, you've lost me.