Comment by voldacar
7 years ago
If the govt of your jurisdiction (American I assume?) commanded you to censor a certain domain or block of IPs with a court order, what exactly happens? I'm not sure if this has been done on the DNS level before but do you guys have a plan in case it ever does happen?
Jurisdiction would include every place where they have a business presence. Their page https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/about-overview/ lists quite a few international phone numbers, which may or may not correspond with offices and subsidiary companies in those locations.
I assume they'd just have to go along with such legal demands, or withdraw from the relevant country, unless the penalty for not complying was very small.
It will probably become an issue some day. In Australia, for example, courts can issue DNS bans of particular sites to individual ISPs. You can avoid these bans entirely by using a service like Cloudfare DNS.
Or you know you Piss off CloudFare CEO and he directs them to censor a site... Which has happened in the past
Can you cite any source on this?
It's a reference to https://www.businessinsider.com/the-daily-stormer-got-pushed...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
Exactly. If it's not "the right kind" of content behind a domain, it doesn't even take a court order for CloudFlare to censor it.
that is not censorship.
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