I had an odd experience with this website, and I’m finally writing it up. The short version:

1. In August 2024 I wrote a blog post that documented how a local “independent journalist” had written for white nationalist websites.
2. In October 2024 he filed a DMCA complaint with my host (Netlify).
   1. Netlify support rubber-stamped the complaint without giving me a reasonable way to appeal.
   2. I moved to CloudFlare and cut the blog post back to a few essential facts+links, to make it easier for the next overworked support person to interpret.
3. In February 2025 CloudFlare approved another DMCA complaint from someone who’d copied my entire post to a content mill and backdated it!

This post will mostly focus on the 2nd DMCA complaint, as it’s the most interesting one.

My post was copied to… MormonFind.com?

On February 14, while on vacation, I received the following email:

Cloudflare received the below copyright infringement complaint regarding your account. If the content identified in the complaint is not removed within 48 hours, Cloudflare will take steps to disable access to the content, consistent with section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Please note that these steps will include disabling access to the reported URL on which the content is located, which will affect any other content located on the same URL.

Complaint Information:

Reporter’s Name: Aaron Bennet

Reporter’s Email Address: <redacted>

Reporter’s Title: Copyright Infringement

Reporter’s Company Name: Bennet Media Association

Reporter’s Address: <redacted>

Reported URL(s): hxxps://www[.]reillywood[.]com/blog/riley-donovan/

Original Work Description: https://mormonfind.com/2024/04/10/riley-donovan-contributes-to-white-supremacist-websites/

To respond to this issue, please reply to [email protected].