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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Q) It's inevitabble that Cloudflare is going to take over the web. We can't stop them. Small website providers +will be strongarmed into using them via DDOScoin[2] and that's that. + +A) There is always hope in resistance. Resistance is fertile[1]. Even some of the darker outcomes +( unfriendly AI takeover, coopting of the www, NSA MiTMing everything) comes to be, the very act of resistance trains us +to continue to destabilize the dystopic status quo that results. Resist! + +[1] http://infoshop.org/AnarchistFAQSectionJ1 +[2] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot16/woot16-paper-wustrow.pdf diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1e961ee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# The Great Cloudwall + +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). + +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). + +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. + +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. + +There is more details available in [in this repository](https://github.com/themusicgod1/cloudflare-tor/blob/master/cloudflare-philosophy.txt). + +What can you do? + +* If you use one of the websites on this list, contact the webmasters if you still can, and tell them not to use Cloudflare. + +* Tell others around you about the dangers of Cloudflare. + +* Get more people using Tor by default so they can experience the web from the perspective of different parts of the world. + +* Start groups, in social media and meatspace, dedicated to liberating the world from Cloudflare. + +* 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. |