That to me is a reason to like the company rather than not... Let's see where you stand once your opinions are on the chopping block
Re:A Primer on Proxies
by whoknew1122 on Monday March 21, 2022 @03:44PM
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The company sure made a courageous stance protecting a site which advocates explicitly for accelerationist race wars, and another image board that was notorious for housing child abuse imagery and conspiracies which led to real-world deaths.
The answer to where a company should draw the line isn't 'OMG, slippery slope!' It's 'somewhere.' And preferably the CEO of the company shouldn't agonize about getting rid of stuff like the Daily Stormer and 8chan.
Re:A Primer on Proxies
by von_lohengramm on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:03PM
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> and another image board that was notorious for housing child abuse imagery and conspiracies which led to real-world deaths.
You know what, maybe you're right. Maybe Cloudflare should ban reddit.
Re:A Primer on Proxies
by von_lohengramm on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:02PM
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> But to me, a policy of content neutrality is tacitly supporting extremist content.
When I read this, I agreed, but as I continued I realized that we come to opposite conclusions. A platform that espouses neutrality and fairness _should_ support extremist content, but it should be the reader's job to determine if the content is despicable.
The concentration of internet infrastructure into a few companies is something to be concerned about. But my bigger beef with Cloudflare is that they profit from and protect despicable websites and only cave when public pressure is high enough.