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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

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Re: Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

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"... its really jarring to see the general sentiment on this submission ..." I am heartened to see a high default level of suspicion, bordering on contempt, for a global observer MITM'ing as much of the Internet as they can. I'm not sure if Cloudflare is a malicious actor but we should all behave as if they are .

you are heartened to see people advocate for cloudflare to start proactively and arbitrarily deciding who can host legal content, instead of being content-neutral? their size and the "man-in-the-middle"-ing is a huge problem. however, i dont think the solution is to encourage them to also start acting as content police. i dont trust cloudflare, which is exactly why i dont want them policing my legal content. you want…

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Re: Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

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post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"... its really jarring to see the general sentiment on this submission ..." I am heartened to see a high default level of suspicion, bordering on contempt, for a global observer MITM'ing as much of the Internet as they can. I'm not sure if Cloudflare is a malicious actor but we should all behave as if they are .

>I'm not sure if Cloudflare is a malicious actor but we should all behave as if they are. Theres sentiment and content. If you claim something without evidence, you become another malicious actor.

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