Holy shit boys

submitted by IndianaJonesIf I asked you for a hug, would you say yes? from self.whatever

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[–]In-the-clouds 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Why would we need Cloudflare? They now have the power to shut down this website just for having an expired SSL certificate for encryption. Does this site even need encryption? We do not exchange money on this website so why encrypt pages we want people to find and see?

Cloudflare has power over websites, as a gatekeeper, and if they are corrupt or become corrupt, they, as a middle man between the user and website, could effectively censor both.

I have no need for encryption to view Saidit pages, and I am not afraid of an expired SSL certificate, so I say, let me in! But Cloudflare said "NO".

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

Cloudflare's utility is in preventing DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks. Without Cloudflare, if someone decided they didn't like this site (and many don't) they could flood the web site with so much traffic the site will crash or grind to a halt. Anyone with the means and wherewithal could shut us down whenever they felt like it.

This is being done to Kiwi Farms forum right now, they got kicked off Cloudflare so that the transgender advocates can try to DDoS it to death. It's still up but the Russian version of Cloudflare gave up after 24hrs and now there on some janky Chinese one.

[–]In-the-clouds 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Is it not ironic that the service that supposedly should prevent downtime (from DDOS) actually caused downtime (they said because of an expired SSL certificate)?