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Comment by zcombo432

9 years ago

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...

Inciting violence has never been a protected form of speech.

  • In USA, the supreme Court has stated that it is only not protected if it causes an IMMEDIATE risk to life. A website doesn't meet that bar, most likely, at least the way SCOTUS phrased it..