Dear Cloudflare. If you want to take a principled stance, you have to do it unilaterally, and defend it when it is being challenged. You want to be “neutral”? Then take the stance when it actually is being challenged. Otherwise, what you have isn’t a principled stance. It’s a public relations strategy. The moment you made an exception, you proved that you could and would disable a site over its content if you wanted. But when something like this continues to stay online, it proves that you are not actually policing content, but your own reputation.

I get that it is genuinely impossible to please everyone. But this is a hypocritical and dishonest stance at best.

What we have here is multiple deaths while their harassers run victory laps hiding behind pseudonyms on Cloudflare-protected properties.

> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design.

I know you guys read Hacker News. Do you want to fucking acknowledge this?