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I'm being downvoted - but we have seen major 'book burnings' on youtube, etc where billions of comments and videos have been purged. These are private platforms and can do what they like, so in a way that's acceptable as it is within their terms of service.

CF is a level deeper than that. This is a company that can effectively shut down the internet for companies and individuals. And now they are involved with archive.org? Should we be concerned about online historical revisionism as that relationship matures?

I feel uncomfortable that CF seems to be positioning itself as a guardian to all information - not at an application level, but at an architectural level.

Cloudflare is shaping up to be a key tool that an authoritarian government requires. And I'm concerned about it!



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