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Free legal speech usually stays online.

It will be deplatformed from mobile stores, but even Cloudflare protects the reincarnation of TheDonald (patriots.win).

Parler, OTOH, constantly had threats of harm to elected representatives, or just democrats in general.

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Cloudflare even supports sites like thepiratebay if I recall correctly. It does make me respect them more and makes me happy to do business with them.

Piratebay is just hosting the magnet links, right? That's not infringing copyright IIRC.

Yes I believe they now only host magnet links. I believe they did used to have .torrent files. I am not sure if .torrent files actually make a huge difference in copyright though do they? Aren't they still almost the same as a magnet link just essentially a different format?

I believe they switched to only magnet links as it made it easier for them to be mirrored and switch around providers to hide from authorities without having to worry about all those files. Also most people likely use magnet links anyway.

They used to run a large tracker in the past which facilitated the exchange of copyrighted material. iirc they don't do that any longer, as a result of their legal turmoils.

even??

Is tpb somehow worse than the other sites mentioned?

TPB has been subject to a decade or more of direct actions by more than one government. Their resilience is fairly impressive.

CloudFlare has supported sites with child pornography (8chan) and neo-Nazis.

except when they don’t!!! they have banned legal but distasteful sites before.

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