Topic: Cloudflare
Cloudflare plays a significant role in the internet infrastructure, but its actions often reflect a troubling trend of censorship and deplatforming. The company has faced criticism for blocking access to certain websites and complying with government demands, raising concerns about the erosion of free expression online. As digital rights advocates push back against these practices, the implications for privacy and individual liberty become increasingly critical.
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Cloudflare Appeals €14 Million AGCOM Fine, Challenges Italy’s Piracy Shield as Illegal Censorship System
Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get…
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The Censors Strike Back: Italy’s Crusade Against the Open Internet
Italy’s €14.2 million fine against Cloudflare exposes the collision between national censorship and the borderless logic of the internet.
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Iran Cuts Internet Nationwide as Protests Spread Across Major Cities
Cut off from the world, Iranians now face a silence engineered to erase their uprising in real time.
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Tokyo Court Ruling Against Cloudflare Sets “Dangerous Precedent” for Internet Infrastructure Liability
A court ruling that could turn the pipes of the internet into its new censors.
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LaLiga Block Causes Spain Internet Outage and VPN Surge
A football league’s crusade to protect its broadcasts has ended up benching an entire nation’s internet.
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DNS Becomes a Tool of Digital Rebellion: From Internet Infrastructure to Privacy Weapon
DNS didn’t change. The internet got ugly enough to make it matter.
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Parody Website ClownStrike Rejects CrowdStrike’s Baseless DMCA Takedown Notice
CrowdStrike’s copyright takedown on parody site adds insult to injury following global outage scandal.
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ECH is Going Mainstream, and it Could Help Liberate Blocked Websites
Government attempts to block websites could be countered with this new tool.
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ADL report advocates for deplatforming at website infrastructure level
Activists have been targeting hosting and service providers.
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Wildebeest is a faster way of deploying a Mastodon server
Support for the Fediverse.
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Cloudflare: Blocking Kiwi Farms and others caused loss of potential customers, “significant adverse feedback”
An admission that significant numbers of people want Cloudflare to remain neutral.
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Rekieta Law switches to Rumble and Odysee after YouTube bans his channel
Embracing alt-tech after YouTube censorship.