Network Neutrality and Digital Inclusion

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This community is broadly about network neutrality. It’s important to note a major component of #netneutrality is access equality and thus #digitalInclusion.

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StackExchange / StackOverflow ratchets up the aggression against non-boot-licking free-worlders, using Cloudflare to thwart decentralised access (github.com)

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A lot of tech knowledge is jailed in #StackOverflow, #StackExchange. Too much. The tech world is very dependant on this single gate keeper. This week, freedom to access SE’s indispensible tech knowledge has been lost.

Timeline

pre-2016: SE jailed itself inside Cloudflare
? - At some point SE became “openly” accessible and Cloudflare-free. But a massive #cookieWall blocked content and it was broken to a large extent. That is, in some browsers there was no way to get past the cookie wall.
2022 - #AnonymousOverflow was founded. This front-end platform made the cookie wall problem go away regardless of your browser and anonymity.
2023 - SE reverted back to Cloudflare, effectively making the need for AnonymousOverflow more dire; more important.
This week - SE tunes the Cloudflare settings to aggressively block AnonymousOverflow instances, ultimately killing off free-world access to tech information.

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