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Does Google still stand for "free and open Internet"?

"Our values remain the same: The Internet should be competitive and open. That’s how it works today and how it has always worked. It’s a level playing field, where new entrants and established players can reach users on an equal footing. If Internet access providers can block some services and cut special deals that prioritize some companies’ content over others, that would threaten the innovation that makes the Internet awesome."

https://www.google.com/takeaction/action/freeandopen/index.h...

He said so himself in May that every website deserves due process before taking it offline.

“Whenever you have a private organization which is making what are essentially law enforcement decisions, that is a risk to due process. And I think due process is important,” Prince said in the interview.

Cloudfare used to market itself not too long ago ago as an entity that didn't censor speech. I guess things have changed.

“A website is speech. It is not a bomb,” Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a 2013 blog post defending his company’s stance. “There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/service-provider-boots-ha...