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OP didn't say THEY ought to decide; they said CloudFlare ought to decide. CloudFlare is a business. Due process does not apply to businesses, since nobody has
by pjlegato 11y ago
OP didn't say THEY ought to decide; they said CloudFlare ought to decide.
CloudFlare is a business. Due process does not apply to businesses, since nobody has the inherent right to be a customer of a business under any circumstances. Except for a few very narrowly defined limits (such as not rejecting customers based on race or ethnicity), a business is quite free to refuse service to anyone it pleases, and to ban any activities it pleases.
Indeed, numerous classes of customer are already banned from CloudFlare[1]. OP is simply saying they ought to expand that to include one more, one that uses the platform abusively.
[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ , e.g. the sections on "Limitation on Non-HTML Caching", "Investigation", "DMCA & Abuse Reports", "No Third Party Beneficiaries," etc.
- x1798DE 11y agoDue process is not required, but neither are many smart decisions. The point of due process is to increase the chances that you didn't do an innocent person harm. I think it's very reasonable to say, "We won't suspend your account arbitrarily, and if someone asks us to suspend your account, we'll follow these procedures in making the decision."
- eastdakota 11y agoYup.