Anti-censorship

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Censorship is bad, and is often difficult to seek accountability for (because such attempts are themselves censored).

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Free-speech point of failure: DDoS protection and CloudFlare (www.reddit.com)

submitted 9 months ago by apes_on_parade@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to c/anticensorship@lemmy.whynotdrs.org

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Although I take the article's claims around intentionally propping up the DDoS landscape with a heavy grain of salt, the fact remains that anti-DDoS services can be critical for sites on the modern-day internet, and that our reliance on them is a weakness which certainly has been exploited before and will be exploited again to silence disfavored speech.

Note: we do use CloudFlare for our lemmy as well!

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[–] AnimorphFan1996@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 2 points 9 months ago

Federation can be another mitigation against denial of service attacks. When our Lemmy server went down, I was still able to read our history of posts and comments via a federated server.