Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate Online: Report (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday May 4, 2017 @08:40AM from the getting-to-the-bottom-of-things dept.

An anonymous reader writes: If you've been wondering how hate has proliferated online, especially since the 2016 election, ProPublica has some answers. According to ProPublica, Cloudflare -- a major San Francisco-based internet company -- enables extremist web sites to stay in business by providing them with internet data delivery services. Cloudflare reportedly also keeps to a policy of turning over contact information of anyone who complains to operators of the offending sites, thus exposing the complainants to personal harassment.

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Re:This is not news. by computational+super · 2017-05-04 09:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Calling anything that isn't extreme left-wing propaganda "hate" is also contributing to the proliferation of "hate" on the internet.

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Re:This is not news. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-05-04 09:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Your opinion differs from mine. Therefore everything you say is "hateful".