On July 1, 2025, dubbed “Content Independence Day”, Cloudflare announced a bold initiative to block unauthorized AI crawlers from accessing websites by default and to create a marketplace where content owners and AI model providers can transact. This move marks a pivotal shift in the contest over who controls, benefits from, and governs data used […] The post Cloudflare Declares “Content Independence”: A New Phase of Data Enclosure in AI Markets appeared first on Internet Governance...
