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DISCLAIMER:
Before you call me a Conspiracy Theorist and try to discredit me, hear me out. I am not a cosnpiracy theorist, neither do I seek attention. I am stating an honest opinion based on actual research and reasoning. This is just me venting my anxiety over last wednesday's apparent server crash, which MAY or MAY NOT be tied to a potential Copyright Filter Implementation on CloudFlare's Hosting Service. It could be just a glitch, you never know, but I don't trust Big, Faceless Corporate Entities like CloudFlare, so it's natural for me to think filtering whenever this happens on their end.
Alright. Now to the matter at hand.
I believe that last wednesday Black Box Incident was on CloudFlare's end. However, I also think that this wasn't a simple glitch, but rather somethign that CloudFlare is gradually rolling out starting last wednesday. In all honesty, I am beginning to believe that they might be implementing a full Content Filter on their hosting platform. This would have a terrible effect on their websites, with pretty much anytrhing and everything that is remotely violating the filter's guidelines would be deleted instantly, showing that Restricted Message instead. Because of this, I decided to go and see if there was any potential evidence for it actually being a filter CloudFlare might be implementing, and what I found was....Concerning to say the least.
What kinds of content would it be filtering?
A lot of you might associate filters with NSFW Content knowing how DeviantArt has to do it to comply with Wix's Country's laws on said content and many other sites have their own filters. However, I have found evidence that it could actually not be an NSFW Filter, but rather a COPYRIGHT filter. The reason I think this is because, in January, 2020, CloudFlare Experienced a lawsuit from the Japanese Publishing Conglomerate, Takeshobo, for damages related to illegally uploaded content that CloudFlare was storing on one of its client sites. This caused CloudFlare to shut down the site in question, though their reputation was hurt severly after this incident. Additionally, to further add insult to injury, this isn't CloudFlare's first rodeo with issues concerning those using their services for illegal purposes. In June, 2019, Kadokawa, among many other large companies in Japan, including but not limited to Kodansha, Shouten, and several others, filed a lawsuit against CloudFlare for property that was uploaded ILLEGALLY to one of the manga sites that was on the platform. They stated that "Cloudflare is complicit in copyright infringement by offering its service to manga piracy sites," meaning that they were knowingly allowing people to break the law using their platform (Sherman, 2020). This means that, in other words, CloudFlare is not just censoring because of "Sensitive people," if they are implementing censorship, it's most likely due to continued legal issues with other companies and the dire situation the propbably find themselves in more than anythign else.
What does This Mean for FurAffinity?
Given the severity of the violations listed above alone, it means that FurAffinity is probably gonna start being severely limited in waht users could post, but not by choice, but rather by still being connected to CloudFlare's technology and using them for a hosting engine. Eventually, this severe limiting by association with the platform itself will mean that either FurAffinity will have to switch to other platforms, like Wix (though they have limiations on NSFW Content due to the country they're operated from) or WordPress (Not sure what their limits are) for hosting, or will just have to cut off from CloudFlare and begin building their own services for pictures and security. All in all, though, I'm really nervous about where CloudFlare is going with this, cuz...based on what happened with the lawsuits involving CloudFlare, with what I imagine was CloudFlare beginning to crack down on what client sites can have on them (With how this was gradually happening and not all at once, as well as how it said RESTRICTED, something I automatically associate with Authoritarianism and Censorship, and was happening on all CloudFlare Sites, it's evident this was a new filter on CloudFlare's end, and that's not good as yesterday's Black Box of Death was probably just a test run)...I don't think it will be headed anywhere good for FurAffinity or any other CloudFlare sites for that matter. Because of this, I strongly support the notion that FurAffinity MUST leave CloudFlare immediately and start developing its onw internal systems or move to WordPress or maybe Wix (one or the other) before it's too late.
Evidence to Support My Position:
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1819214
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne.....dflare/.156760
Wolfychu belongs to Wolfychu Animations.
The drawing itself belongs to me.
DISCLAIMER:
Before you call me a Conspiracy Theorist and try to discredit me, hear me out. I am not a cosnpiracy theorist, neither do I seek attention. I am stating an honest opinion based on actual research and reasoning. This is just me venting my anxiety over last wednesday's apparent server crash, which MAY or MAY NOT be tied to a potential Copyright Filter Implementation on CloudFlare's Hosting Service. It could be just a glitch, you never know, but I don't trust Big, Faceless Corporate Entities like CloudFlare, so it's natural for me to think filtering whenever this happens on their end.
Alright. Now to the matter at hand.
I believe that last wednesday Black Box Incident was on CloudFlare's end. However, I also think that this wasn't a simple glitch, but rather somethign that CloudFlare is gradually rolling out starting last wednesday. In all honesty, I am beginning to believe that they might be implementing a full Content Filter on their hosting platform. This would have a terrible effect on their websites, with pretty much anytrhing and everything that is remotely violating the filter's guidelines would be deleted instantly, showing that Restricted Message instead. Because of this, I decided to go and see if there was any potential evidence for it actually being a filter CloudFlare might be implementing, and what I found was....Concerning to say the least.
What kinds of content would it be filtering?
A lot of you might associate filters with NSFW Content knowing how DeviantArt has to do it to comply with Wix's Country's laws on said content and many other sites have their own filters. However, I have found evidence that it could actually not be an NSFW Filter, but rather a COPYRIGHT filter. The reason I think this is because, in January, 2020, CloudFlare Experienced a lawsuit from the Japanese Publishing Conglomerate, Takeshobo, for damages related to illegally uploaded content that CloudFlare was storing on one of its client sites. This caused CloudFlare to shut down the site in question, though their reputation was hurt severly after this incident. Additionally, to further add insult to injury, this isn't CloudFlare's first rodeo with issues concerning those using their services for illegal purposes. In June, 2019, Kadokawa, among many other large companies in Japan, including but not limited to Kodansha, Shouten, and several others, filed a lawsuit against CloudFlare for property that was uploaded ILLEGALLY to one of the manga sites that was on the platform. They stated that "Cloudflare is complicit in copyright infringement by offering its service to manga piracy sites," meaning that they were knowingly allowing people to break the law using their platform (Sherman, 2020). This means that, in other words, CloudFlare is not just censoring because of "Sensitive people," if they are implementing censorship, it's most likely due to continued legal issues with other companies and the dire situation the propbably find themselves in more than anythign else.
What does This Mean for FurAffinity?
Given the severity of the violations listed above alone, it means that FurAffinity is probably gonna start being severely limited in waht users could post, but not by choice, but rather by still being connected to CloudFlare's technology and using them for a hosting engine. Eventually, this severe limiting by association with the platform itself will mean that either FurAffinity will have to switch to other platforms, like Wix (though they have limiations on NSFW Content due to the country they're operated from) or WordPress (Not sure what their limits are) for hosting, or will just have to cut off from CloudFlare and begin building their own services for pictures and security. All in all, though, I'm really nervous about where CloudFlare is going with this, cuz...based on what happened with the lawsuits involving CloudFlare, with what I imagine was CloudFlare beginning to crack down on what client sites can have on them (With how this was gradually happening and not all at once, as well as how it said RESTRICTED, something I automatically associate with Authoritarianism and Censorship, and was happening on all CloudFlare Sites, it's evident this was a new filter on CloudFlare's end, and that's not good as yesterday's Black Box of Death was probably just a test run)...I don't think it will be headed anywhere good for FurAffinity or any other CloudFlare sites for that matter. Because of this, I strongly support the notion that FurAffinity MUST leave CloudFlare immediately and start developing its onw internal systems or move to WordPress or maybe Wix (one or the other) before it's too late.
Evidence to Support My Position:
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1819214
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne.....dflare/.156760
Wolfychu belongs to Wolfychu Animations.
The drawing itself belongs to me.
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