Comment by duxup

4 years ago

Earlier they posted this image.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2022/08/pasted-im...

That made sense to me. Basic services, transit, blocking ddos… little, if any moderation.

Hosting content, more moderation.

I might strongly disagree with someone and I sure as hell won’t host their BS, but I still think some basic level of rights/ services should be provided.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction about why providing a CDN is fundamentally and completely different from hosting. Still coming off your servers eierher way.

It feels like they’re trying to construct a distinction here that allows them to continue providing web services to illegal/immoral content. And this isn’t the first time, they’ve told patreon to pound save over pirates using their cdn too.

“It’s not actually hosted just a CDN” is the weakest of these though. Like wow that’s splitting a fine fine hair, for what I can’t really see as any particularly great underlying reason or principle.

And if the principle is free speech… why not host it too? I just don’t see the logic here.

  • I’m not sure either.

    I do know if I would come up with the exact list they have.

    I do generally agree with the approach of scaling moderation.