Comment by Bender a day ago
4chan uses Cloudflare. Blocking routes to Cloudflare may have an interesting impact unless CF are cooperating with the UK.
4chan could stop using CF but their moderators will have to step up their game as CF is being used to detect and block CSAM.
I doubt it heavily. CF has control over a large chunk of the global internet - they're not going to go thru their clients one by one and make sure they're doing age verification. That's absurd and far too expensive.
The alternative to that is either:
1. UK blocks cloudflare (unlikely, come on now)
2. UK gives cloudflare a pass (fairly common)
3. Somewhere in-between. Maybe UK cares about highly visible people behind cloudflare like 4Chan but not others.
Yeah that's option 3, for now. But they won't go after cloudflare in the general case because it's too risky IMO. And cloudflare will only comply to the absolute minimum they can get away with, because they can't burn money auditing every single customer behind cloudflare.
> they're not going to go thru their clients one by one and make sure they're doing age verification
no, they just drop customers when people complain that they host legal content they happen to disagree with (KF).
AFAIK Cloudflare gives 4chan a dedicated ip to simplify blocking.
I think you may be right. [1] It's the same IP I've had in my hosts file for a long time.
[1] - https://whoisfreaks.com/tools/dns/history/lookup/4chan.org?t...
spain block CF every weekend to try to avoid football piracy. crazy, but its happening and nobody cares.
ironic how CF will host 4chan and 8chan but not kiwifarms
CF will cooperate with UK authorities because they're not in 4chan's business.