Comment by johnklos
4 years ago
You don't use Cloudflare because you're afraid of them de-platforming you due to social pressure? Are you hosting content that encourages and/or facilitates harassment, violence, suicide, swatting and other illegal activity? Then you should be afraid of being de-platformed, Cloudflare or not.
If you said you're not using Cloudflare because Cloudflare is attempting to become a monopoly that can mix good with bad and prevent anyone from blocking whoever they choose to host, that'd make sense.
But it sounds like you're just bullshitting. Anyone who'd stretch this event to the possibility of "losing business on a Saturday afternoon on a whim of an anonymous Cloudflare censor" is just absolutely bullshitting. You, cft, are full of shit.
> You, cft, are full of shit. [1] [2]
1. https://imgur.com/a/hY2BN7p
2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_dogs_bark,_but_the_carava...
I think your assertion that "losing business on a Saturday afternoon on a whim of an anonymous Cloudflare censor" is a legitimate concern is pure straw man - you're positing that there's this new censorship thing going on, and not only that but that it's so arbitrary that an "anonymous Cloudflare censor" could just take you offline.
That is why I'm saying you're full of shit.
Do real adults make ridiculous assertions about imaginary things and expect to be taken seriously?
It's telling that you're not all that secure about being believed about spending all that money with Verisign (which, personally, I think is a very bad choice, but you do you).