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I see more that as a consequence of a failure of the US to legislate hate speech. Cloudflare, as a private company, doesn't want to police hate speech (which I fully understand and support, personally).

In my country, France, this website is simply illegal. It would be prosecuted, and only then the hosting company (such as Cloudflare) would have to shut down the website.

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This is a great point. Regardless of how one may feel about hate speech laws, it is disturbing that a large percentage of citizens believe that Washington D.C. is completely impotent. People have given up on the idea of their government helping, to the point where it's not even brought up as a possibility.

> I see more that as a consequence of a failure of the US to legislate hate speech.

What’s considered “hate speech” is completely arbitrary and liable to change depending on who is in power. There’s untold “hate speech” against Christians, straight white males, wealthy people etc - where does it stop and why is criticizing one group of people “hate speech” and another not?

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