Tell HN: Cloudflare now censors Polymarket in Germany

7 pointsposted 2 months ago
by baobabKoodaa

Item id: 46253313

10 Comments

baobabKoodaa

2 months ago

If they actually cared about how they impact people, the minimum they could do is give 24 hours warning to exit positions. This shows they absolutely do not care.

cuu508

2 months ago

How does it do this? If Cloudflare is censoring DNS records, users can switch to another DNS server.

Or have Polymarket themselves put Cloudflare in front of their services? If so, how do we know Cloudflare initiated this, not Polymarket themselves?

baobabKoodaa

2 months ago

We know because reports on the Polymarket Discord began with reports about Cloudflare blocking, and later on Polymarket added the trading restriction on their end. If the initiative to block had come from Polymarket, these events would have unfolded in reverse order.

chrisjj

2 months ago

> CloudFlare ... censoring Polymarket for German users

How?

baobabKoodaa

2 months ago

CloudFlare is the main censorship provider on the internet. I don't know what you're asking?

chrisjj

2 months ago

I don't see that assertion substantiated e.g. on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare

And anyway, Cloudflare can censor a site only if the site owner requests or allows, right?

baobabKoodaa

2 months ago

No. CloudFlare was at one point proudly making luvlic statements about censoring nazis.

cuu508

2 months ago

Cloudflare could "censor" DailyStormer only because DailyStormer themselves put Cloudflare in front of their services. Same with Polymarket.

baobabKoodaa

2 months ago

You're moving the goalpost here. The claim I was responding to was:

> Cloudflare can censor a site only if the site owner requests or allows, right?

This is different than what you're saying:

> Cloudflare could "censor" DailyStormer only because DailyStormer themselves put Cloudflare in front of their services. Same with Polymarket.

Yes, you are correct that Cloudflare can only censor their own customers. But that is a different point than the one I was responding to.