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+# The Great Cloudwall
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+This repository started as a mirror of https://pad.okfn.org/p/cloudflare-tor (then http://j7652k4sod2azfu6.onion/p/cloudflare-tor and http://j7652k4sod2azfu6.onion/p/cloudflare-philosophy )
+list of websites that use cloudflare / are behind the great cloudwall(AKA that use Cloudflare).
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+It is called this in reference to the [Great Firewall of China](http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/) which does a comparable job of filtering out *some* people from seeing web content(ie everyone in mainland china and some people outside) while at the same time those not affected to see a dratically different web, a web free of censorship of such images as ["tank man"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man).
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+Cloudflare similarly prevents those in southeast asia and elsewhere who have poor internet connectivity from accessing the websites behind it(for example, they could be behind 7+ layers of NAT) unless they solve a CAPTCHA.
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+Unfortunately the CAPTCHA they use is NSA/Google's.  This poses multiple problems.
+1) This CAPTCHA does not always work(especially for those with accessability issues), and when it doesn't work there is viritually no way for them to complain.
+2) The CAPTCHA's support of languages is very limited, which in and of itself is troublesome to the survival of languages worldwide. 
+3) This CAPTCHA trains Google's AI, effectively forcing human beings to train an AI that is owned by a company that makes AI robots that are designed to kill people(ie Boston Robotics was purchased by Google, and that is their intent).  
+Unfriendly AI is an existential risk to mankind and these CAPTCHAs are making it *more* likely that this risk will actually come to be by training.
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+There is more details available in [in this repository](https://github.com/themusicgod1/cloudflare-tor/blob/master/cloudflare-philosophy.txt).
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+What can you do?
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+* If you use one of the websites on this list, contact the webmasters if you still can, and tell them not to use Cloudflare.  
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+* Tell others around you about the dangers of Cloudflare.
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+* Get more people using Tor by default so they can experience the web from the perspective of different parts of the world.
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+* Start groups, in social media and meatspace, dedicated to liberating the world from Cloudflare.
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+* Start a coop that can provide a meaningful non corporate alternative to Cloudflare or let us know that there is one 
+to at least provide multiple layered defence against Cloudflare.