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[–]magnora7 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Yeah this is exactly what happened to saidit, so saidit knows all about this from 3 weeks ago. I'm still kind of pissed cloudflare revealed that info

[–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

What did they reveal about saidit?

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

the name of our server company to our attacker

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Lame... Who is the attacker?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

person associated with the big sub we had to ban a few weeks ago, who was deliberately trying to shut that sub down because he didn't like the content

[–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

poseidon stuff? ok, thanks. I guess he succeeded

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

They also were constantly dragging discussion down the pyramid of debate, so ultimately we removed them because they were creating a liability for the site which is why we have the rules in the first place. We didn't really want them here anyway because they weren't really following the rules in the first place but I tried to accommodate them for 10 months to try and be nice, but ultimately they were a drain that created tons of work for admins and added very little value to the site, so it was a convenient time to let them go

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That is why you don't use their shit if you absolutely don't have to. Their are an US-based company so this was very easy to predict.

Another reason to decentralize everything.

[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cloudflare is also bad for a lot of other reasons. One of the most annoying to me is constantly having to fill out captchas to access sites as a Tor user, with some sites even breaking when their assets are stored on separate Cloudflare domains which require one to go to the assets manually to fill out the captcha. Cloudflare also promotes search engine monopolies by blocking alternative search engines from crawling their sites. I really don't like them.

“The purpose for which this subpoena is sought is to obtain the identities of the individuals assigned to these websites who have exploited ACE Members’ exclusive rights in their copyrighted works without their authorization,” ACE wrote while requesting the subpoena.

My, I absolutely hate this group, but I have to commend them for actually using proper terminology. Many people erroneously refer to copyright infringement as "theft", despite them being legally distinct concepts with completely different reasons for existing, with property being a natural right, and copyright being a temporary, government-granted monopoly designed to encourage the creation of the arts. Referring to it as such was even ruled as "pejorative" in MPAA v. Hotfile. Perhaps that is why the ACE avoids doing so.