So... judging by the titles, what this website is suggesting is basically that free speech only applies if you agree with it, and since they don't agree with CloudFlare's decision to host everything, CloudFlare is bad?<p>Honestly, the only thing I don't like about CloudFlare is their treatment of Tor users, which I don't see being mentioned anywhere in here.
As far as I can tell, this is by Daniel Brandt - previously of (now defunct) Google Watch and a bunch of other similar projects over the past 27+ years: <a href="http://www.leavegooglebehind.com/news/2012/02/google-critic-daniel-brandt-takes-all-of-his-sites-offline/" rel="nofollow">http://www.leavegooglebehind.com/news/2012/02/google-critic-...</a><p>(Based on the IRS letter posted on the site at <a href="http://www.crimeflare.com/gifs/irslet.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.crimeflare.com/gifs/irslet.gif</a> which mentions "Public Information Research Inc", Brandt's organization)<p>Update: confirmed, here's a page on the site which Daniel signs his name to: <a href="http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html</a>
Some people do some pretty nasty things using the Internet and may be protected by CloudFlare. But there's also some pretty amazing things that happen because of it.<p>Some people say mean, false, and hurtful things. But others can say kind, insightful, and truthful things.<p>Some religious traditions are honestly rather disturbing to me. But others are a part of who I am.<p>I would much prefer to live in a world where everyone is free to use the Internet, speak, and believe as they desire, even if that has some negative consequences, than to live in a world where someone else dictates what I or anyone else can publish, say, and believe.
It seems weird to target them because their services can be abused for illegal purposes like terrorism. One can use Bic pens also for terrorist purposes, but I don't recall people setting up bic watch websites.<p>And on <a href="http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html</a> you can see he accepts payments through Paypal, why rally against CloudFlare but don't mind getting money through Paypal?<p>The Silicon Valley is the opium of the people quote just makes it feel all in all very goofy, combined with the nineties website, comic sans and under construction gifs just seem to lack.
If the web development skills on display here are any indication, I think this personal lacks a fundamental understanding about how all this tech works.<p>I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
I'm curious if the person created the website to look dated and unattractive to add more of a grungy.. aka underground info feel? I love CloudFlare all, but haters gone hate, and everyone is free to express their views.
I halfway expected to find a CF-Cache-Status:HIT Response Header. He doesn't use caching at all.<p>1 point for consistency. -100000 points for advocating censorship.
"It costs $22 USD a day to keep CloudFlare Watch online"<p>What the hell?!? He pays 600 bucks a month for some shitty HTML? What kind of hosting is this?
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