Comment by notriddle
4 years ago
> When you have an algorithm that suggests things to people, you are a de facto publisher and whatever you do, you're choosing what to promote.
But CloudFlare doesn’t. That’s why they position themselves as a common carrier.
Exactly, and that's the problem: they can't have it both ways. They can't claim they are a common carrier while simultaneously deplatforming entire websites no matter what the justifications. The correct answer is for people who feel they've been wronged to file lawsuits. We must stop this extrajudicial form of justice-seeking; it will only end in death.
Yes, I tried to separate things into three buckets, CloudFlare is in the third bucket.