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Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They shouldn't care. Their job is not to control the internet. It's to provide routing and content delivery.

Responding to legal takedown notices is as far as they should go, and in a better system, would be as far as they're legally allowed to go.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. In fact, I'd prefer for services like Cloudflare to not know much of anything about their customers, aside from whether they're legally allowed to use the service.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the biggest threat they pose is how many domains they see everything from.

Though they did use it well with that JS supply chain bullshit a month or two ago (and equally importantly, explicitly acknowledged in their announcement that it was an extraordinary measure and not something they wanted to make a routine thing).

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So why are they still servicing 4chan if 4chan has a bunch of illegal content on it?

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

Their job is not to control the internet

They take websites offline if and only if they receive a legal order to do so.

Sites with user generated content have broad protections against illegal actions of their users unless they do one of a small handful of things that exposes them to liability, like actively participating or ignoring legitimate takedown requests. It's not an accident. That's how the internet is intended to work, and the only way allowing user generated content is realistically possible.

[–] antler@feddit.rocks 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same reason why they serve Lemmy instances despite illegal content on Lemmy: section 230 of the DMCA