funny, I have distaste for cloudflare because the ceo “woke up one morning in a bad mood” and decided to boot the daily stormer. Censorship without due process. not trying to debate that decision here, but it seems they got the worst of both worlds.

The Daily Stormer shot themselves in the foot by libeling Cloudflare. Before that CF was perfectly willing to give them service, in the interests of being content-neutral provider, despite believing that the site itself was vile.

CF themselves have raised similar concerns about due process in the way they handled this particular case, but I can understand why they dropped a customer against whom they had a pretty strong case for suing.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

Hold on.

You do know The Daily Stormer is a far-right neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for the genocide of Jews, right?

But my free speech, maaaaaan.

There's a certain subset of the tech community that entirely doesn't get that words result in real-world harm. It isn't just bytes in a database we can be indifferent to because it doesn't affect anything.

There's a certain subset of the tech community that doesn't get that speech and action are different things, and that either all speech is protected or none is.

Government is different from the private sector but as we rapidly move towards a future ruled by megacorporations, the application of rules and laws becomes ever more important.

> doesn't get that speech and action are different things, and that either all speech is protected or none is.

That only covers how government is supposed to act, right? I mean, a hosting company is free to pick how their service is used. If a client insists in abusing and breaking the law by, say, repeatedly publishing hate speech, doesn't the company has the right to act? I mean, just the reputation hit makes this a business liability.

I covered that in the 2nd paragraph. Publishing hate speech is not against the law, it's not even a real definition. The greater point is that the company can do what it wants but we should be wary as companies turn into major oligopolies/monopolies with arbitrary unaccountable policies. See Youtube and Facebook for the current crisis.

Censorship is something done by the government. Daily Stormer could have easily moved to another provider. Just because Nazis are being kicked off of private platforms doesn't mean "censorship" is being done. I'm kind of taken aback at how you think "due process" which is a legal term would be implemented by a private entity.

cool, I still would prefer to do business with clear policies governing what kind of content gets you banned.