Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
4 years ago
> This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with.
"We'll keep doing it of course, even after we said we wouldn't do it any more."
After all, it's been all of 3 days since they wrote,
> Just as the telephone company doesn't terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things, we have concluded in consultation with politicians, policy makers, and experts that turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy. To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.
(https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-a...)
Edit: And to be fair, they do link to that post: "As we outlined last Wednesday, we do not believe that terminating security services is appropriate, even to revolting content.", "The policy we articulated last Wednesday remains our policy." - did I miss the part of that post where they tack on "well, except for the times when it's really bad"? I went and skimmed over it just now to see if they left themselves a loophole that they're using today and I'm not seeing it.
If you take your phone line and start making a lot of harassing calls with that phone, they will cut you off and tell the police. It does not seem that KF posters wanted the speech there to stay private.
That's besides the point; I'm not personally arguing (here) that CF shouldn't cut people off, I'm pointing out that CF just said that they didn't think they should cut people off, and proceeded to turn around and do that while still saying they shouldn't do it. You can be for or against CF cutting people off, but either way you can be unhappy with them saying one thing and doing another.
Yeah that’s true. And it was true the first time they co planned about it and did it. Some years ago. I guess their decision would be made easier with some modern regulations, but our (US) current political system seems to be DDOSed for modern regulation.