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Good. A utility shouldn't be in the thought-policing business. If something illegal is going on, that's what law enforcement is for.


They are doing policing though, just the other way. Cloudflare successfully blocked taking the harassers to trial. Their lawyers blocked engagement of law enforcement against the right person in the first place.


This makes no sense whatsoever. Cloudflate doesn't control the legal system.


> successfully blocked taking the harassers to trial

Source please. They are still a US company, and must comply with all lawful requests.


https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731108822077443

+ context before/after in the thread. You'll find the link to the case documents there as well.


Law enforcement blew him off. That's a civil suit. Filing a motion to quash on a subpoena is within their legal rights.

The FBI won't do its job, so cloudflare should do it for them?




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