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0 pointsmichaelt6y ago0 comments

  You're defending the Daily Stormer,
  do I read that correctly?

No, you're reading that incorrectly.

stevenicr is referring to Cloudflare's values of "total content neutrality" [1] where they argued they were similar to a 'common carrier' and should provide services to everyone, like a phone company or mail service would.

Such values have been articulated by Cloudflare's CEO himself [2].

Hence, the DDoS protection service would protect the Taliban, child pornographers, stolen credit card sellers, DDoS-as-a-service providers and, yes, neo-nazis. So this policy had odious consequences, but was at least consistent and clearly articulated.

The new policy seems a lot less clear - drop service to neo-nazis, by all means. But why haven't they dropped the Taliban and paedophiles and DDoS providers and carders at the same time?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cloudflare&oldid=... [2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-free-speech/

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DanBC6y ago

> stevenicr is referring to Cloudflare's values of "total content neutrality" [1] where they argued they were similar to a 'common carrier' and should provide services to everyone, like a phone company or mail service would.

...in the US

All of these free speech arguments need to be really clear that they're talking about the extremist version of freedom of speech used in the US.

Other countries have postal services and phone companies that place limits on what can be sent over them.