Comment by nextaccountic

3 days ago

> It's not like they threatened to remove you from their service

They routinely do exactly this

And it's not only threats, they actually enforce them. Here is an example, but there are many more: https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...

  • This org was getting Cloudflare owned IPs blocked left & right due to the gambling content.

    The fees are for sure ridiculous but i don't think Cloudflare was wholly unreasonable to request that the customer bring their own IP.

    • Is it written anywhere in their ToS that “gambling content” requires you to pay 120k$ or get booted out? If not, then it's not reasonable at all to give them a 24-hour notice and it definitely sounds like extortion.

      I don't buy the “was getting Cloudflare owned IPs blocked left & right” argument.

      Remember we are talking about a platform that still protects 4chan despite the internet raids, violence threats, celebrity hacking + photos leak, the buffalo shooting, etc:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Controversies_and_harass...

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