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Cloudflare to EU: Anti-Piracy Measures Shouldn't Harm Privacy and Security (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Did you even look at the article or did you see "Cloud flare" in the title and immediately grabbed your pitchfork?

The article is outlining a situation where Cloudflare is advocating to maintain privacy.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

This haves nothing to do with the article. Cloudflare overall haves too much power on the Internet. On August 31st 2022, Matthew Prince (Cloudflare's CEO) released a statement defending his role as a service provider and not a regulatory body. But 3 days later, Cloudflare blocks a website called Kiwifarms. You maybe thinking, "Wait, that goes against his first statement he made.". You're right. I ask you, do you want a company like that to have so much power over the Internet?

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

omg that bar that kicked me out for being a belligerent asshole has stopped being a bar and now they've become the police. They have too much power!

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

They can be service provider and can stop providing those services to, well, basically anyone. It's not like they literally blocked them off the internet.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

...but why? What do they gain from it?

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Business, the core of their business model over any other CDN is that steadfast privacy that they will only give information when it's mandated by a court order

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But do they have "canaries" that allow the user to verify they are indeed doing that?

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Yes they have a canary entry on their transparency reports.