I was looking for evidence to disprove you but it appears you're right. Most interestingly:
I don't really care what's being hosted, so in a practical sense if there were SSNs being hosted it would not be my concern until I got a court order about it. If no court order ever came, I would keep my nose out of it.
Why though? There are already hosters that respect your privacy, run a commercial reverse proxy service instead, then you can act like CloudFlare about everything, you can even let CP sites stay on it (you're just a service provider who can't be forced to censor etc)
None in America. I'll consider auxillary services feature very soon after I get set up. It would be great to run a Cloudflare-esque service but I need to focus on hosting atm because it's what I personally need.
>hosting anything in the (((US)))
Get your shit together and go full Vincent Canfield mode.
But if you have a cloudflare-esque service you can have the actual host anywhere, you can even use a .onion.
OVH, Hetzner, Leaseweb are bulletproof enough if they're behind reverse proxy.
It would be easy to flee the country and set up some shitshop VPS service in Viet Nam with a large latency to the US, but like I said, I would very much prefer to have my country.
Cloudflare forwards complaints to hosts, announces your host to the reporter, and no longer tells the client about every report received. It used to until a few months ago. I believe this is particularly because of my site and a massive number of high profile complainees who've abused Cloudflare CSRs over it.
kiwifarms.net
I could host anywhere, yes, but not efficiently. I couldn't use Cockbox because the connection speed was just abysmal. You're talking 8+ seconds per page. I don't know what the issue was but I had similar lack of success with other VPS providers in Europe. Page loads instantly when directly connected, about half a second with US proxy, and then 2+ seconds with EU proxy.
And I just don't feel like I should have to do this. This is my fucking country and I have the goddamn right to call a bunch of trannies gross weirdos with a fetish. I shouldn't have to operate like a fucking child pornographer to do so.
I'll make my own company, use good hardware, be open with clients and if the feds take issue with it and tell me to close shop or take my shit THEN I'll leave, and I'll spend the rest of my life making sure tech companies invest in countries that aren't run by a bunch of mentally handicapped authoritarians who arbitrarily protect crossdressing mentally ill people from mean words.
You'll fail anyway. Like with >NEVER
Run a company that works like cloudflare but end-to-end SSL and doesn't take down sites ever, just forwards the complaints to them and makes it "their responsibility" to contact the host. Rent a dedicated server in Sweden, service providers there are literally never responsible unless they "tamper" with the servers. We already have a VPN provider like that where you get a static IP and can forward whatever ports you want, they don't log you or anything so it's like hosting at home but abuse complaints go in the trash.
Law (2002:562) on electronic commerce and other the information society's [sic] services
[...]
Definitions
2 § In the law is meant by
the services of the information society: services which are usually performed against a fee and provided over a distance, electronically and on the individual request of a service receiver,
service provider: legal or physical person which provides any of the services of the information society
[irrelevant marketing and contract related stuff omitted]
Freedom of responsibility for service providers in certain cases
16 § A service provider that transfers information which has been given by a service receiver in a communication network, or who provides access to such a network, shall not due to the information's content be compelled to replace damages or pay sanction fees, under the condition that the provider doesn't
1. initiate the transfer,
2. choose the receiver of the information, or
3. choose or change the information
The transfer and making available according to the first paragraph also regards such automatic, intermediate and temporary storage of information which only happens to provide the transfer, unter the condition that the information is not stored longer than what can reasonably be required for the transfer.
TN: This is about reverse proxies/ISPs who only transmit data from point A to point B. They are not responsible whatsoever for the content as long as someone else requested it. They have no responsibility to censor the content, the police provides an optional CP DNS blacklist for ISPs but that's it, TPB isn't blocked here
17 § A service provider that transfers information which has been given by a service receiver in a communication network shall, for such automatic, intermediate and temporary storage which occurs only to effectivize further transmission to other service receivers, not due to the information's content be compelled to replace damages or pay sanction fees, under the condition that the provider doesn't
17 § En tjänsteleverantör som överför information som har lämnats av en tjänstemottagare i ett kommunikationsnät skall, för sådan automatisk, mellanliggande och tillfällig lagring som sker endast för att effektivisera vidare överföring till andra tjänstemottagare, inte på grund av innehållet i informationen vara skyldig att ersätta skada eller betala sanktionsavgift, under förutsättning att leverantören
1. doesn't change the information
2. fullfills applicable conditions for access to the information
3. follows the within the sector commonly accepted rules for updating of the information
4. does not intervene in such within the sector commonly accepted technology which is used to receive information regarding the usage of the information, and
5. without duration prohibits further spread of the information, as soon as it comes to the provider's attention that the information which has originally been transmitted has been removed or made unavailable, or if a court or a [governmental] agency has decided that such is to occur.
TN: This is about cache used to speed up loading of pages but isn't essential. Cloudflare's "Always Online" would not be legal if it's used for illegal content. A court order can compel them to remove it from the cache but not to censor it if they're only proxying. Note that (5) only applies to cache, reverse proxying child porn is 100% legal even if you're completely aware of it. You're treated the same way as an ISP, you can even act as a VPN service with the option of blocking certain IPs on request and not as a regular reverse proxy
[irrelevant section about cloud storage omitted]
19 § A service provider that transmits or stores information for another [party] may be charged with responsibility for crime which regards the information's content only if the crime has been commited with intent.
Any idea how a Cloudflare clone could make money?
People pay money for it?