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Re:‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator by bmurphy1976 on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:41AM (#20611801)
You can say whatever you want, but I am under no obligation to (a) listen to it or (b) help deliver it to the masses. That is why I agree that providers such as CloudFlare (should) have the ability to refuse to host content such as this.
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Re:‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator by londons_explore on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:42AM (#20612396)
I agree, but I'm still surprised at cloudflares decision.

If I'm hosting some content, I now have to worry about if my content might violate their opinions of 'tastelessness', and if so, I might be given 24 hours to leave.

If I were a customer, that's a small risk but a big impact. I'd prefer a provider that didn't do that.

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Re:‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator by bmurphy1976 on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:45AM (#20612684)
In the two cases where CloudFlare has done this to date they seem to draw the line at murder. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

Do you think any other provider you may do business with has a more liberal policy than CloudFlare? Have you actually read the terms of service for any of them?

If this is the thing that changes how you view CloudFlare then you are already on shaky ground.

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Re:‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator by leereeves on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:45AM (#20614122)
Did you call for Comedy Central to be shut down after Larry Wilmore said:“I don’t want to give [Trump] any more oxygen. That’s not a euphemism, by the way. I mean it literally."

Or after the shootings of Congresspeople, arguably inspired by all the celebrities calling for violence?

Or is your outrage (and CloudFlare's) partisan?

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Re:‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator by bmurphy1976 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:34AM (#20623022)
Huh? I'm not calling for anything. Simply stating CloudFlare is well within their rights to tell 8chan to fuck off and nobody should be surprised by this.
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