Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com)

While Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world, copyright holders are doing everything in their power to wipe the site from the web. From a report: Last weekend another problem appeared for Sci-Hub. This time American Chemical Society (ACS) went after CDN provider Cloudflare, which informed the site that a court order requires the company to disconnect several domain names. "Cloudflare has received the attached court order, Case 1:17-cv-OO726-LMB-JFA," the company writes. "Cloudflare will terminate your service for the following domains sci-hub.la, sci-hub.tv, and sci-hub.tw by disabling our authoritative DNS in 24 hours." According to Sci-Hub's operator, losing access to Cloudflare is not "critical," but it may "cause a short pause in website operation."

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Re:Not setting a precedent?

[lordlod]

And now Cloudfare have let the genie out of the bottle it seems like any site can be nuked, either because the CEO wakes up deciding to do it or due to a court order.

Somebody got out of the wrong side of bed this morning and is walking around in delusion land.

Of course Cloudfare, like every other substantial company complies with court orders, always has.

Last year Cloudfare received 153 court orders world wide and complied with the vast majority of them. We know this because they documented it in their biannual transparency report https://www.cloudflare.com/tra...

What ever your view on the actions around The Daily Stormer it is a completely independent issue to Cloudfare complying with lawfully issued court orders.

Re:THIS is what Class War looks like

[losfromla]

Community college used to be cheap. It is still cheap if you have a nice engineering job but not if you have a McJob and are working for minimum wage. Here is California (yeah, The People's Republic of Kalifornia) community college costs $52/unit. Per unit! That means that a full load of classes will run you $600 per semester! Books, parking, bus passes, etc will cost about that again. So now it is $1,000 per semester. That is not cheap. It is fucking insane.
Apply for scholarships while holding down a job or two and carrying a full load (or more) of classes is a luxury that some don't have time for. Because people want to sleep and eat and even rest at times. Not all humans are diabolical machines like Archangel Michael.