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CloudFlare is the main censorship provider on the internet. I don't know what you're asking?


I don't see that assertion substantiated e.g. on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare

And anyway, Cloudflare can censor a site only if the site owner requests or allows, right?


No. CloudFlare was at one point proudly making luvlic statements about censoring nazis.

Cloudflare could "censor" DailyStormer only because DailyStormer themselves put Cloudflare in front of their services. Same with Polymarket.

You're moving the goalpost here. The claim I was responding to was:

> Cloudflare can censor a site only if the site owner requests or allows, right?

This is different than what you're saying:

> Cloudflare could "censor" DailyStormer only because DailyStormer themselves put Cloudflare in front of their services. Same with Polymarket.

Yes, you are correct that Cloudflare can only censor their own customers. But that is a different point than the one I was responding to.




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