Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has already tweeted [1] his support:

"Sad to see Joe Sullivan allegations. Joe's had a distinguished career as a US Attorney & exec at eBay, PayPal, Facebook, Uber & Cloudflare. Anytime an opportunity arose, Joe's advocated for us to be as transparent as possible. I hope this is resolved quickly for Joe & his family."

[1]: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1296522269313785862

Why talk about optics? This is not about what seems bad, it's about what US democracy deemed is a felony. If I was CF I wouldn't want a criminal mind working for me, how can you trust him when you know he lies and cover up.

I just don't understand this sort of detachment.

Optics are not of essence.

> how can you trust him when you know he lies and cover up

If he lies and covers up in the interest of his employer, that's a pretty good recommendation.

I dunno to me it sounds horrific that Machiavellism is accepted without a pause knowing how inefficient and detrimental it is for human cooperative endavours. History showed us that unchecked Machiavellism causes dynamics to devolve to paranoidic-zero-sum social dynamics. Although is an aspect of our psychology we shouldn't just rationalize it as a force of nature. When we talk we cynically opt to talk about optics so casually that's exactly what we're doing.

As long as he isn't convicted it's purely optics.