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For what it's worth Cloudflare does not do anything different for Tor than for regular IPs. Since those are static pages with most likely not exactly questionable content the use of Tor is probably not all that important anyways that the total number of users that might be affected would be miniscule.

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>the use of Tor is probably not all that important anyways

Who are you to decide that my use of Tor is not important enough?

A site operator. It isn't censorship for someone to decide who they want to talk to.

CF is simply giving site owners levers to use if they so choose. While I am a strong supporter of Tor, privacy, and anonymity, CF has done nothing wrong here by allowing site operators to selectively choose who they wish to serve to.

Sounds a lot like censorship to me. It's discrimination at the very least.

Spam filters are discrimination, but I don't see anyone suggesting we stop using those.

Then go after the site owners who choose to enable this.

Isn't the problem along the line of so many different people using effectively the same IP addresses (exit points) and looking somewhat similar to each other?

I'd imagine if there was a major ISP network out there that was doing NATing or similar for their customers so everyone came from a small set of IP addresses they'd get the same treatment. More users on the same IP means more abuse from that IP. If anything Cloudflare isn't discriminating. To handle Tor users better you'd have to discriminate (technical definition, not the negative form) to handle Tor users better

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