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New comment by angelbreakfree in "U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables"

angelbreakfree — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:45:08 +0000

With all due respect, altho it may seem that it was to you, I do not thing it was very relevant.

New comment by angelbreakfree in "The Twitter Files, Part Six"

angelbreakfree — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 05:07:21 +0000

The wildest part of the Twitter files is the unhinged framing that they are presented under.

1. Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language"

2. Based on the emails he posts, the agencies give links to review based on tips they receive or their own intel and twitter then decides if it violates ToS or not (and they sometimes did not act or simply temporarily suspended). But it's presented as a "deep state"-like collusion where the agencies control if twitter act on them or not.

3. The people in the company discuss internal matters and are sometimes critical of potential decisions. But they are presented mostly stripped of context and the focus is on anonymized employees snarky comments to make it seem like decisions were arbitrary, partisan, and without any regard to logic or context.

I could go for hours listing these.

Most quote tweets are people thinking this confirms a suspected malicious intent from twitter and that they intentionally dramatically shifted the outcomes while colluding with one side.

If anything, this confirms that Twitter acted (outside of a couple isolated occurences) in a way tamer way than I ever imagined them acting while handling the issues at hand.

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New comment by angelbreakfree in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

angelbreakfree — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:47:04 +0000

They positioned themselves as a low level internet infra provider, they are not technically "giving platform". The closest thing they are doing to giving them a platform is protecting them from DDoS.

New comment by angelbreakfree in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

angelbreakfree — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:18:53 +0000

This is a bit unsettling, I thought that the emergency threat was moderated off the site (as mentionned by the main [1]).

I know that place is horrendous, but it feels like CF blocked it because of the media attention instead of the threat itself. There is plenty of content online that actively partakes in stochastic terrorism as well as direct threats that are serviced by Cloudflare.

The question of what makes content worth dropping, without the involvement of law enforcement, from such low level infrastructure services is a scary prospect, especially when you consider the issues that current internet has[2].

The moment they caved in, Cloudflare stopped being a simple infrastructure provider, and we can be sure that there will be actors, big and small, that will pull levers to make this happen again.

The silver lining is that a hateful forum will probably cease to operate for good.

[1] - https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1566158393391423489

[2] - https://secushare.org/broken-internet