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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by tssva on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:41PM (#20617978)
It is censorship, but there is nothing morally wrong with a private organization or person censoring speech on property they own. They have no obligation legally or morally to participate in speech they disagree with. The immoral act would be to force against their will a private organization or person to participate in speech with which they disagree.
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by mindslight on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:29PM (#20619832)
Even restricted to the subset of what can be codified legally, you're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

Once someone sets up their "private property" as a public forum, they're on the spectrum of operating as a de facto government. If there were ideological competition between reverse proxies like Cloudflare, the "private association" argument would have weight. But rather Cloudflare seems to be acting due to pressure from an concerted effort to implement censorship across every such business.

Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by afiori on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:37PM (#20618657)
Another sort of immoral act is to rile up a mob on twitter to pressure a company to drop a client with PR threats.

No one argues against the right of a company not to host Nazi forums. But there is an ongoing trend were companies that wished to be apolitical are forced into political decision.