2025-07-02 18:40:58
Prepare yourself for the inevitable “it’s a spacecraft” nonsense from the media.
https://bsky.app/hashtag/A11pl3Z
2025-07-02 07:58:25
Details don’t matter – pick your own headline. I doubt we have heard the last of this, but this, too, shall pass:
With Cloudflare’s new setting, websites can block – by default – online bots that scrape their data
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html
2022: cloudflare blocks kiwifarms, but in 2025 it still exists:
Quote:
In a blog post [in September 2022], which didn’t mention Kiwi Farms or the pressure campaign, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, and its vice-president of public policy, Alissa Starzak, suggested the company regretted taking action against the far-right websites 8chan and Daily Stormer in 2019 and 2017, saying there was a “deeply troubling” response afterwards from authoritarian regimes calling for the company to block human rights websites.
2017: cloudflare blocks daily stormer, but in 2025 it still exists:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
2016: cloudflare blocks users of the tor project:
https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
2018: cloudflare introduces tor project onion services:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/
Cloudflare’s position is expeditious. Don’t read too much into what either the long term impact will be, nor what the moral impact will pan out as.
2025-06-28 03:42:17
This.
https://newrepublic.com/post/197369/supreme-court-elena-kagan-free-speech-logic-porn-ruling
2025-06-28 01:40:16
This.
2025-06-28 01:34:50
The United States Supreme Court has done something ill-advised, misinformed and foolish.
2025-06-25 21:39:52
I can only think that because it’s such a small community on Mastodon it decided to go with spamming a list and it chose poorly.
