DDG also
donated over $186k to a series of
privacy-abusing CloudFlare sites run by “Demand Progress”, “Fight
for the Future”, and “Access Now”. Despite getting nearly $70k
from DDG, FFTF continues to expose their own patrons to the very
evil they claim to be fighting. Demand Progress, who received
$100k from DDG, posts their claim to
“contest concentrated
corporate power” directly on
their CloudFlare site,
as well as the
claim that they educate people on
“the impacts of corporate power over our economy and democracy” as
they “confront corporate bad actors”, all of which is bluntly
unaligned with their CloudFlare patronage. Access Now, who
received $16k from DDG, also used CloudFlare to block Tor users,
hypocritically acting against their
own mission to
“fight for a free and open
internet, advocating for the Net Neutrality principle that internet
access should be offered to everyone on a nondiscriminatory basis,
without favoring certain websites, applications, or services.”