Tell HN: Cloudflare now censors Polymarket in Germany

7 points by baobabKoodaa ↗ HN
Since today, CloudFlare suddenly started censoring Polymarket for German users without any prior warning. Pretty nasty to do this to traders who have active positions and orders who are suddenly unable to exit their positions and cancel their orders. Polymarket has responded to this by adding Germany to their list of restricted markets. No official announcement is visible from either the German government, Polymarket or CloudFlare. This is what you get when you start censoring the internet. It never is just the CP and nazis. It just expands and expands and the people supporting censorship do not care how many people they hurt.

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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.
> CloudFlare ... censoring Polymarket for German users

How?

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?