What this really says that they opened a hole which got them into a questionable legal area by removing them, and they regret not just remaining neutral.
It comes down to content moderation. If a company begins to moderate content that travels through its network, it can be held liable and forced to remove things that any entity or governmental body could disagree with.
For example that means if the Republican Party was hosting on Cloudflare and the Democrat Party disagreed with the Republican Party, they could force Cloudflare to remove the Republican Party's websites from transiting their network.
Another example is if the Washington Post and Fox news both went through Cloudflare, and Fox disagreed with the Washington Post they could force Cloudflare to remove the Washington Post.
The moment you set the precedence it becomes an expectation -- by Cloudflare remaining neutral they can't be forced into that position.
I’m glad Cloudflare is taking a neutral stance to this. I’ve long said if a service provider, in any capacity, starts moderating content without a court order then it’s a slippery slope. I’m not saying the sites are good, but, why does Cloudflare need to be the internet police here? They can’t and shouldn’t be.
Neutrality is key, how would you feel if your content was suddenly pulled because someone on the internet disagreed?
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As a network operator, you would be surprised how many AS operators are hostile or simply don’t respond. It’s unfortunately very common, even Tier-1’s are hostile.
Out of the last month, I sent out 191 abuse reports, of which 10 got replied to, 2 were resolved 6 were “no f** off” style, and 2 were told “can’t fix / won’t fix / don’t know how to fix”.
I’m not just referring to Chinese ASNs either, some US Telco’s, German, Australia even.
> Uber probably are doing something dodgy, with all these shell companies, but this opening remark just shouts "Don't trust this source - they don't know what they are talking about".
Uber, like all massive companies, are always doing dodgy tax avoidance things. But, even if they're doing tax avoidance, it's still legal as long as it's not blatant fraud.
Like all media companies, Business Insider has manipulated the content to cause outrage with their target markets for readers.
Though, on the topic of wording data, it's always interesting to see how media organizations & companies as a whole swing things, for example:
"Uber claimed $4.5 billion in global operating losses ... in reality, it brought in $5.8 billion in operating revenue" could've been written as:
"Uber brought in $5.8 billion in operating revenue, however, declared a loss of $4.5 billion"
or
"In a 2019 filing, Uber declared a $4.5 billion loss, despite earning $5.8 billion in operating revenue."
Frankly, it's been long suggested by the government to do that. I would not be surprised if they did as well.
In Canada, our freedom of expression is limited by whatever the Government deems appropriate:
> Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter also permits the government to enforce "reasonable" limits.
Unfortunately, there is not much guidelines these days on what "reasonable" is considered. I like to hope it would not be abused...
I was personally affected by it, it appears they kept the announcement of the prefixes live in those datacenters but it was similar to being blackholed in those POPs. It caused 8 hour of outages for me and many people I know who go through these POPs.
All the free CF sites I've got were down for those 8 hours via those POPs, and, I had many customers calling to ask why their site was doing and had to explain "sorry, Cloudflare broke just these two POPs..."
I'm not going to rely on Cloudflare Pages personally... It's concerning to see they let free traffic in regions be broken for over 8 hours _without_ redirecting traffic to another working PoP as well[0].
In my opinion, the right decision is to release your research and have the vulnerabilities patched. I'm not a fan of the argument "only we know the bug" "it's for counterterrorism, seriously"... because I'm doubtful. If you found the bug, odds are someone else given the effort could.
Secondly, I think it's fair to say governments absolutely abuse any vulnerability they can at any point in time.
In relaxed terms, NFT is a special type of token that is universally unique. There is no two identical tokens, and by holding this "token", it's like holding a certified purchase receipt. It's the "proof of ownership" for this item.
Think of it like a freshly printed 10 dollar bill - it's all unique because of the serial number, and there's no two bills with the identical serial number (in theory on bills... in practice on crypto it is truly unique)
Not on topic for the actual product... but please remove that terrible scrolling behaviour. I hate when websites do this, it makes the user experience (imo) much worse to just "jump" sections if I try to scroll a tiny bit.