I was orginally going to post to c/showerthoughts… but then I thought it might fit in better here.
why wouldn’t that be the purpose of cloudflare? the system is designed to do what it eventually does. Not what we are told, hope, or dream.
cloudflare in its service, provides a clean, efficient way, to centralize, a decentralized independent internet. Giving whoever holds the keys to cloudflare control over those resources, for whatever purpose. Ban’s ? Instant. Shadow ban, easy. Hoax (redirecting traffic) simple. The idea that ‘but they’re not supposed to’ is childish.
Never give people power over you. Ever.
Let’s be clear that not just any state actor can do this. We’re talking about the US, UK, rest of the eyes alliance. Snowden revealed they are the threat who operates like this and we shouldn’t forget it.
India can’t likely do this, China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa cannot do it.
The CDN’s are the MitM.
Yes this is absolutely a risk…
imo that is precisely how it has grown so large and so quickly
You are entirely correct. What Cloudflare does is also valuable and tricky to replicate though, so people reeeally want to deny it
Everyone has different values
