There's lots of payment processors out there too. However, Mastercard and VISA do have an oligopoly, and those deserve a lot more regulation than they currently get, for other reasons than discrimination.
> Someone on our team asked after I announced we were going to terminate the Daily Stormer: "Is this the day the Internet dies?" He was half joking, but only half. He's no fan of the Daily Stormer or sites like it. But he does realize the risks of a company like Cloudflare getting into content policing.
If DS has so much traffic that it needs service from someone like Cloudflare to not collapse under the load, well then maybe some of those people should start their own hosting service that can handle that much load. Otherwise, it seems the DS crowd isn't willing to put their money where their mouth is, so I have no sympathy.
Who gets to decide what a "nazi" is? You? What if I say you're a nazi? Your denials just make you more guilty. That's exactly what a nazi would say, nazi.
That's easy: whoever owns the platform. If I own the platform, Daily Stormer isn't going to be using it. I don't want to be associated with those morons, so I'm not going to do business with them. If it's my platform and my business, I have every right to refuse to do business with those people.
If you want to be fair and equal and give everyone equal access no matter how vile their viewpoint, then you need to make a government service that doesn't discriminate. But then, you may have a big problem with the voters if the government is funding something the voters don't like. That's the nature of democratic governments: people collectively decide what they, as a nation and society, are going to allocate resources towards. So it's the voters' right to refuse to provide a platform for this unliked minority as well.
>So, there are problems that people have, and things that need to be talked about, but they aren't allowed to say anything about it.
If you feel that way, you have every right to set up your own platform and allow those people access to it. But if you're giving access to literal Nazis, I also have the right to shun you, which I will. If you want to willingly associate with that type of scum, then I'm going to assume that you're cut from the same cloth.