Re:Cloudflare Tries to Ignore the World
by nitwit005 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:00AM
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There's no incentive to respond to this sort of thing. If Cloudflare changes their policy, they'll just start publishing the other set of articles, claiming they're an unjust or unfair censor.
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They have multiple incentives: (ignoring the main "not being shitty people" incentive)
- if they get investigated in the future in connection with some crime, they can't claim they weren't aware people use their service explicitly to protect illegal behaviour
- they likely don't get as much money from KF as they lose in both other customers leaving and bad PR
- many tech people will actively advertise against using them and will never consider working for them
- by protecting KF, they invite more sites like that - and you really don't want to be known as "that service provider where you can go when nobody else wants anything to do with you"
- the backlash is pretty established now, you really don't want comments on your feature announcements to start with "have you got a feature to turn off the murders yet?"
The incentive for dropping a stalking and harassment site from their service is the opportunity to stop providing the services a stalking and harassment site needs to function. Most humans have a sense of morality that influences their actions, which would make this opportunity highly appealing.