<story><title>Cloudflare&apos;s abuse policies and approach</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-approach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammyhavoc</author><text>If this is in response to Kiwi Farms, I would say this is very disappointing.&lt;p&gt;Love CloudFlare, think they are amazingly innovative, huge amount of respect for the people who work there.&lt;p&gt;I see where they&amp;#x27;re coming from, but I don&amp;#x27;t see how KF is defensible whilst 8chan et al aren&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a really tricky situation.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, websites like KF and the like are utterly reprehensible. On the other hand, Cloudflare taking it upon themselves to police the Internet is a nightmare in its own, given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running.&lt;p&gt;What is permitted to say is something for the courts, not for the whims of private businesses, to decide.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cloudflare&apos;s abuse policies and approach</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-approach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammyhavoc</author><text>If this is in response to Kiwi Farms, I would say this is very disappointing.&lt;p&gt;Love CloudFlare, think they are amazingly innovative, huge amount of respect for the people who work there.&lt;p&gt;I see where they&amp;#x27;re coming from, but I don&amp;#x27;t see how KF is defensible whilst 8chan et al aren&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re effectively saying they were wrong then:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.</text></comment>