Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again(arstechnica.com)
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Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-has-a-plan-to-never-censor-hate-speech-again/
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It's the sole reason they're suddenly changing their stance. Legally it'll destroy their business the more they actively censor. They'll get buried rapidly under that vast responsibility.
IMO, this is the critical issue for internet freedom, not so much the Net Neutrality change. How can we say we're for free speech for all content providers when we excuse shutting down a disagreeable site because of a virtual lynch mob?
They say it's Nazis today, but I see the arguments they use to excuse this action, and how easily they can be applied to any number of other sources in the future. We need to be better than Nazis, not just stronger than them. If we don't care about being better than them, then we risk not being stronger than them for long.
They say it's Nazis today, but I see the arguments they use to excuse this action, and how easily they can be applied to any number of other sources in the future. We need to be better than Nazis, not just stronger than them. If we don't care about being better than them, then we risk not being stronger than them for long.
> The problem was that other Cloudflare customers started calling and threatening to cancel their service if Cloudflare didn't cut the Daily Stormer off.
This is not the excuse they used back in August. Back then, the CEO said "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”
This is not the excuse they used back in August. Back then, the CEO said "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”
Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again - until one of their customers says something their CEO doesn’t like. Just lol.
> Prince is working to cultivate a social consensus that infrastructure providers like Cloudflare should not be in the censorship business—no matter how offensive its customers' content might be.
Good luck. I agree that they should be neutral, but I still wouldn't want to give my money to a company shields neo-nazis.
Good luck. I agree that they should be neutral, but I still wouldn't want to give my money to a company shields neo-nazis.
That's not really agreeing to be neutral
The term I used wasn't really the point.
I'm missing the point then, I thought it was half of your statement. Could you explain it further?
If this isn't some kind of meme, it needs to be.
I appreciate what he's saying, but of course the proof is in the pudding. I hope that Cloudflare sticks to that course the next time the pitchforks come out.
It's pretty crazy too how Cloudflare came almost out of nowhere to now have power over, what 15% of all internet traffic? One hopes that events like this push development towards better resiliency and more decentralization separate from third party players like Cloudflare.
It's pretty crazy too how Cloudflare came almost out of nowhere to now have power over, what 15% of all internet traffic? One hopes that events like this push development towards better resiliency and more decentralization separate from third party players like Cloudflare.
Otherwise, this just looks like a PR piece without any substance.
EDIT: It looks like CloudFlare is being sued for copyright infringement. https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-fails-to-limit-scope-of-... They would like to try to hide behind "we don't do censorship." However, that whole Daily Stormer affair showed that they do. So they are trying to disavow that decision.