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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 07:51:26 JST Rich Felker

   Clownflare really needs to be forced to take legal responsibility for the stuff they're hosting - and yes, when they're serving it for a customer, they are hosting it not acting as a common carrier.

   Their business model would collapse immediately if they had to react & respond to legal complaints and customers couldn't just hide behind them while one party claims they're not involved and the other party is hiding their identity.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 08:19:55 JST Rich Felker

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     Context for this was a slimy site republishing scifi authors' works lying that they had permissions from the authors and hiding behind Clownflare.

     I'm all in favor of 🏴☠️ if you're honest that that's what you're doing so visitors can choose if that's how they want to get stuff they can't or won't buy, but lying that you're legitimate and affiliated with authors when you're not while you exploit their works is not cool.

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     maxine 🇵🇸 (maxine@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 09:04:08 JST maxine 🇵🇸

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     @dalias shopify/squarespace also don’t seem to have much of a problem with this, and just like cf don’t act when notified despite having much greater responsibility…