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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by DrDimension on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:48PM (#20617185)
A private company must act as public infrastructure once it becomes a de facto monopoly.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by prawnsalad on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#20617521)
Your argument aside, Cloudflare is definitely not a monopoly. There are many, possibly hundreds, of different CDNs that run at scale.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by madeofpalk on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:42PM (#20617987)
What is Cloudflare's share anyway? Akamai would be #1, right?
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by smt88 on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:55PM (#20617312)
None of the companies discontinuing relationships with 8chan are monopolies. In some cases they're just the last in their category to finally drop 8chan.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by Arrezz on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:45PM (#20618037)
I've always been intrigued by this, do you think that platforms such as YouTube should be considered public infrastructure? And if so for what reasons?
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by anigbrowl on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:44PM (#20619377)
I'll take that argument seriously when it's accompanied by proposals to buy it out and nationalize it to run at cost rather than make a profit.
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by mrguyorama on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:59PM (#20617377)
A company selling compute resources to run web servers is not even close to in a monopoly position
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by castis on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:49PM (#20617194)
edit: nah
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by DuskStar on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:57PM (#20617347)
It might not be true in the general case yet, but it's certainly a sentiment I can get behind. Privately-owned toll roads shouldn't be able to ban political opponents - why should the Internet equivalent be different?
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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by DrDimension on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:54PM (#20617295)
The regulation applied to electric and telephone companies in the US...

How can people be this ignorant of recent history?

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