But SJWs have previously used this tactic (providers' own ToS) to get websites they don't like taken offline. It has been happening not only to reverse proxy providers, but also to Tier 1 ISPs (who blackholed kiwifarms just like CF), DNS providers, domain registrars and colocation/hosting providers.
It starts with the worst sites first, the ones many people will not be upset about having taken offline, and then slowly gets more and more obviously authoritarian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_They_Came&l...
I can believe that in heavily left-leaning social circles unironically using the term "social justice warrior" is grounds for social excommunication.
I hope you can believe that most people outside those circles--in other words, most people--understand it as a more-or-less neutral descriptive term and won't think twice about it.
I have stuff on R2, I don't personally use Jio, and the office has multiple ISPs but not Jio. Customers had randomly complained that some of the icons were broken/some files could not accessed, but never followed up our request for browser console/network snapshots, and our testing always showed everything working fine (we were very small with a handful of customers, at the time).
Finally, purely by chance, office network was having issues, so one of my QA people switched to their mobile hotspot, and they were on Jio. And then they could see all the broken stuff, but weren't sure why. Stuff escalated to me, and it finally clicked!
Easy to work-around by using a custom domain, though painful if you want to do access control/signed urls/etc as CF still only supports them on the r2.cloudflare urls. Had to put a worker in front.
ls612•3mo ago
halJordan•3mo ago
Notably though, for all the know-it-alls on this site. Its not the spy agencies getting these powers.
ls612•3mo ago
throwaway94275•3mo ago
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crote•3mo ago
How could you possibly know, though? A big issue with these schemes is the complete lack of transparency and any form of due process. Websites are getting blocked without any information being provided, so how are you supposed to distinguish a copyright-related block from a block demanded by a spy agency, or the ISP CEO's golf buddy?
thebruce87m•3mo ago
Ofcoms power covers all of the UK, not just England.