Comment by phillipcarter
4 years ago
> I truly hope that those unsatisfied with this outcome (which I suspect will be literally everybody) can take this as an opportunity to go help pressure their respective governments to figure out what the hell should be done, systematically, about hate speech on the internet. It's only 25 years overdue at this point.
This is a very good takeaway, as it is a complex problem. But I think in the interim, it's perfectly fine for private companies with no legal obligation to keep sites like these operating to just choose not to do business with them.
Yeah regardless of your stance on KF, you have to support cloudflare as an independent business to decide who they want as a customer. KF has many other options to serve their site. It’s really their own fault for using a product like Cloudflare that can be easily coerced into dropping a client through a Twitter mob.
It's fine for a business to do anything but it's not fine for the business to lie and say they are something they are not.
The question therefore becomes at root, are they lying? Is the company actually impartial infrastructure, or are they dishonest.
The past has shown that they are a little unstable in their impartiality.
Personally I'd like to see them making much more decisions to clean up the net but I'd need to see them being honest about it.