After more than three weeks of investigation, Cloudflare has dismissed the baseless complaint filed by Cyble, on Flock’s behalf, in an attempt to remove this website from the Internet. If you missed parts one through four, here are the links:
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February 5, 2025: The last email to Hetzner was on December 30. There has been no response and it is unclear if they are still investigating. Hetzner never forwarded the document showing the supposed relationship between Flock and Cyble.
- Part I: Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize “Cybercrime” Takedowns to Silence Critics (Dec. 16)
- Part II: Flock and Cyble Inc. Continue to File False Notices (Dec. 17)
- Part III: Flock and Cyble Inc. Pile on the Allegations with no Evidence in Sight (Dec. 29)
- Part IV: Flock and Cyble: Aligned Values (Dec. 31)
The tl;dr is that Flock hired[1] Cyble to file takedown notices. This site’s original host, Cloudflare, put a “phishing” interstitial on the site on December 16. The site moved to Hetzner while the takedown was appealed. Cyble filed a complaint with Hetzner a day later.
Hetzner is still conducting its review (while the site remains online).
Cloudflare’s review is now complete:
Upon further investigation, we have granted your appeal and we can confirm the restricted access to the reported URL was removed on 01/08/2026.
Separately, we had contacted you regarding a potential violation of our Developer Platform Terms of Service, which prohibit “content that discloses sensitive personal information.” This was in response to a report claiming that “the website publicly and deliberately releases extensive sensitive information obtained from Flock.”
Thank you for providing additional information, including a Flock Safety customer communication stating that, “Based on what we have seen, websites like the one circulating online are using agency-released public-records data.”
Based on our review, including the additional information provided, we found insufficient evidence of a violation.
Thank you for your understanding and patience while we worked through this process.
The “Flock Safety customer communication” Cloudflare cites is included below; it was obtained via an Illinois FOIA request by Lucy Parsons Labs and published on Muckrock.
Cloudflare got this one right. So did Flock’s own customer communications team, apparently.
Hetzner’s review continues while the site remains online.
To everyone who has continued to demand transparency and accountability while Flock invokes “officer safety” as a silencing mechanism: this is what winning looks like. It’s not a final victory—just one less vector for censorship.
The public records remain public.
We’re just getting started.