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Via Motherboard:

"Cloudflare has confirmed to Motherboard that the company terminated service to Switter because of FOSTA, but also said it's 'a very bad law.'"

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feld ☕️ is good @feld@bikeshed.party
@schlink FOSTA. Australian for censorship.
D. Moonfire @dmoonfire

@schlink Well, that's depressing. I hope they work around it and the brain-dead policies of the US.

Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website

@schlink "IT'S A BAD LAW THAT'S WHY WE SHUT THEM OFF WITHOUT GIVING THEM ANY TIME TO SWITCH OR EVEN A SINGLE WORD ABOUT IT UNTIL /A F T E R/ WE SUDDENLY SHUT THEM DOWN."

Sandro Hawke @sandro@w3c.social

@gaditb @schlink That would have been a good question for the reporter to ask on the phone, indeed.

Karel P Kerezman @greyduck@frell.co

@gaditb @schlink "It's a really bad cake, and we have it, but we want to eat it too."

feld ☕️ is good @feld@bikeshed.party
@gaditb @schlink I don't think that giving them time to switch or giving them notification is legally permissible.
Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website

@feld @schlink Huh, that's an interpretation I haven't heard anyone saying anything about it being possible (I'm pretty sure it definitely isn't KNOWN to be impermissable because iirc it's totally ambiguous what FOSTA/etc actually means (besides "bleep you SWers")),

But also like even after shutting them off, they sent only a vague "Against Our TOS" to them, without specifying in the slightest. They said reams more to VICE than to Switter.

feld ☕️ is good @feld@bikeshed.party
@gaditb @schlink the reality is that the gov't thugs will raid their offices and servers if they host that content, period.

They have to terminate that hosting immediately to protect themselves.
Gadfly (-booq-) @gaditb@icosahedron.website

@feld @schlink fine, but they also could have said anything about it, even afterwards. They didn't, until it became a Story. That was a jerk move that points to at least some level of insincerity.

m0n5t3r @m0n5t3r@gs.m0n5t3r.info
@schlink on the other hand, someone should terminate cloudflare itself because they're a giant MITM
Linux Socialist @LinuxSocist@icosahedron.website

@schlink So you'd think an Australian based organisation hosting on servers in Europe wouldn't be effected by this.

Also reading this via archive.org as vice did this. twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/sta

GCU Prosthetic Conscience @gcupc@glitch.social

@LinuxSocist
@schlink
It was their US based CDN (Cloudflare). They are now on a non-US CDN.

Linux Socialist @LinuxSocist@icosahedron.website

@gcupc @schlink At least they are off cloudflare and back up again.

Ben Collier @bencollier@mastodon.technology

@schlink This is why having the server market dominated by US firms is terrible for society. As a small plus, it might drive the rise of competitors.

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