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Doesn't need to be decentralized, just a phpBB forum behind Cloudflare would still work. Cloudflare is one of the few companies that hasn't become censor-happy (except that one time..)

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The one time I believe you are referring to is when Cloudflare banned the Daily Stormer, which is a far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, and Holocaust denial message board website that promoted the genocide of Jews. It went far beyond the domain of free speech into advocating violence against people, not to speak of its horrific hatred and racism. Reason enough for anyone to ban it.

Cloudflare helps dictators stay in power, but sure is nice for marketing to roll on “freedom of speech”

That’s the price to pay when you don’t take political stances. The free speech approach is to just leave the dictator’s page up and let opposition pages stay up as well.

It’s not a political stance. Cloudflare is breaking the law by providing services to companies/individuals that fall under US sanctions. It’s not politics here, it’s people’s lives.

> It’s not politics here, it’s people’s lives.

This trope has been repeated about nearly everything Donald Trump has said as well regarding policy.

Was supporting CHAZ just politics or people’s lives? Several people were murdered there.

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