Yesterday, a #socialMedia and political #commentor appeared on #RT's #BoomBust program, and namedropped #Gab as "entirely independent run, including their payment processors".
But its untrue. Gab is #Cloudflare.
This was framed in relation to #Parler, which they identified as being attacked by #Amazon and #Apple, but Cloudflare is among the most #monopolistic and predatory in tech.
The commentator who made this false claim is #LaurenChen.
@wildgoose @dsfgs @zleap Yes, they do provide D-DOS protection, as well as edge network content delivery.
But as they often sit as the reverse proxy for many websites they have the power to make decisions about whom they will not serve content to.
for a long time #cloudflare has been making the controversial decision to not serve content to users of online anonymity Services such as #TOR.
@extraspecialk @wildgoose @dsfgs
A good reason to move away from these large centralised services then
