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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Re:So they sell to anyone by HeckRuler · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a progressive, Bernie-voting, liberal democrat... "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it".

    We try to self-police this sort of bullshit witch-hunting, but portions of the party have gotten out of hand. At least we didn't cozy up to the religious right, spawn the TEA partiers, and elect a cheeto.

  2. Re:This is not news. by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mozilla is complicit in shipping browsers which load Neo-Nazi websites.

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