Re:‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online P...
by rabite on Sunday October 01, 2017 @12:45PM
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As Daily Stormer's CTO I can personally attest that your concerns are very well founded.
Re:‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online P...
by alsetmusic on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:16PM
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I don’t know what was / wasn’t said. That said, I find this portion of your argument particularly unlikely:
> 2. The person they're making these claims against has drastically reduced ability to provide his side of the story, thanks to Cloudfare's actions…
Given the clickbait / pageview drive of modern “news” online, I think that someone at the middle of a hotly debated issue such as this could find many outlets happy to quote them on a perceived scandal. It has the potential to the flames and generates yet more controversy.
We have 1. Cloudfare has a powerful need to justify their actions, 2. The person they're making these claims against has drastically reduced ability to provide his side of the story, thanks to Cloudfare's actions, 3. They already did one thing that most people believed they would never do, in arbitrarily terminating services to a site they didn't like, are we really going to make the claim that they would absolutely never twist somebody's words to serve their own purposes?
I don't think they straight made something up, but I can certainly believe that they took a quote out of context, interpreted something creatively, or misrepresented a post on their forum as an official statement by the site owner. In what other situation with such a powerful conflict of interests would we take the word of somebody in Cloudfare's position at face value?