Cloudflare seems to understand its currently unique role in the current Internet ecosystem (it’s as much about preventing DDoS attacks and identifying attackers as it is a CDN) and is very hesitant to no-platform even virulent racists – as I recall they didn’t kick out Alex Jones or Gab. The TLD authorities, though concentrated as a matter of necessity, are a mixed bag – there are enough of them now that one is always willing to host a wide variety of unpopular or repulsive sites. Same goes for Web hosting companies.
When it comes to no-platforming, the things that alt-right greedpigs really fear losing most are free marketing and publicity (mainly via Facebook and Twitter), free CDN services (e.g. Infowars’ use of YouTube), and access to payment processing services like Paypal. As it happens, these are also the easiest ones to game, technically and via poorly-enforced or algorithm-driven ToS rules. This is why they’re weaponising these very concentrated and dysfunctional services against sex workers and others they don’t like.
Decentralised and federated FOSS services will go a long way toward making de-platforming work as it should:
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