diff --git a/subfiles/the_trouble_with_codeberg.md b/subfiles/the_trouble_with_codeberg.md index 77c49ff6..f0287fe8 100644 --- a/subfiles/the_trouble_with_codeberg.md +++ b/subfiles/the_trouble_with_codeberg.md @@ -16,20 +16,20 @@ documenting websites that subject people to the harms of Cloudflare by maintaining a [massive list](../cloudflare_users/domains) of websites to avoid. Unlike other tech giant adversaries to the CFT cause such as [GAFAM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM) -(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft), Cloudflare operates +(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft), Cloudflare operates surreptitiously and largely unknown to the general public, despite having access to ~20-30%+ of the world's web traffic and 80%+ of CDN market. -Their existence is so much in the shadows that privacy orgs +Their existence is so much in the shadows that privacy organizations like "[Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation)" are largely oblivious to the threat of it. -Mainstream privacy orgs not only neglect to protect web users from Cloudflare, -but some of them actually naively use Cloudflare themselves and -unwittingly work against their own interest and declared purpose. -Some privacy and ethics advice sites like "Switching Software" -actually recommend Cloudflare sites to those who entrust them to +Mainstream privacy orgs not only *neglect* to protect web users from Cloudflare, +but some of them actually naively *use* Cloudflare themselves and +unwittingly work *against* their own interest and declared purpose. +Some privacy and ethical advice sites like "Switching Software" +actually *recommend* Cloudflare sites to those who entrust them to give advice pursuant to their own stated purpose. -The problem is so rampant that it became important for the CFT +The problem is so [rampant](../PEOPLE.md) that it became important for the CFT project's tracking of the Cloudflare problem to start keeping track of organizations and the pseudo-anonymous aliases of representatives who were spotted publicly promoting Cloudflare. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ allegedly in response to complaints. > "target lists", with personal data, lists of employment status, > social media identities, -Calling it a "target list" entails a presumption of how the list is +Calling it a "`target list`" entails a presumption of *how* the list is used. For example, if a threat actor wants to join the CFT project to gain access to our internal operations, it is not CFT targeting them but rather CFT avoiding being targeted by their adversary. CFT has @@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ gained trust by posing as those who support the CFT cause. Transparency is essential in exposing the corporate bias behind the information and advice you are getting. For example, a forum for talk -about bicycles might require [Brompton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Bicycle) representatives to be tagged as +about bicycles might require [Brompton company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Bicycle) representatives to be tagged as such so that other users are aware of the bias behind their posts. It would actually be reckless *not* to identify such conflicts of interest. This is particularly important when dealing with Cloudflare -because they have proven to publish misinformation regularly. -Codeberg's move to conceal who represents a company ultimately -promotes corruption and deception. +because they have *proven* to publish misinformation regularly. +Codeberg's move to *conceal* who represents a company ultimately +*promotes* corruption and deception. Are forums hosted in Germany really forced to operate non-transparently and conceal such conflicts of interest from the -public? Unlikely. +public? *Unlikely*. For Codeberg to allege CFT tracks "personal data" with social media identities is perversely deceptive. CFT did not track personal data