Cloudflare and Hetzner threatens to takedown Fediverse instance because of yuri
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Hetzner can do whatever they want, but cloudflare proxies much much worse.
This is of course only if drawings are deemed illegal, which has been picking up speed recently it seems. It is where hetzner resides, but not where cloudflare does, but it can effect proxy locations I guess.
If cloudflare starts deciding they need to judge legality they have even more issues than artwork as well. It feels like half the piracy sites out there or more use them nowadays.
Hetzner obviously got complaints, and I fully understand they have no interest in trying to defend images depicting pre-18 girls in suggestive situations. It's a minefield, with possibility of less favorable content not yet discovered in that fediverse.
What is sad that so many are oblivious to the corporate world and what it takes to run a company, especially against giants like Azure and AWS.
The overton window keeps shifting. Fiction is fiction, you don't have to like it to accept that it should always be ungovernable. But society has regressed so much, we're way past having that legal and social understanding.
Remember when CloudFlare took down perfectly legal KiwiFarms and you cheered on them being the morality police? Well, you’re welcome.
The yuri (Japanese lesbian art) in question is obviously not CSAM as you can see in the Bluesky thread, as both women depicted in the artwork are fully clothed and don't look like children at all.
The fediverse instance being talked about (woem.men) is currently down right now due to a hasty emergency relocation, because Hetzner only gave them 24 hours to respond satisfactorily.