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>Don't try to market yourself as critical Internet infrastructure if you're going to throw your principals away because someone made you feel icky. Don't use c

>Don't try to market yourself as critical Internet infrastructure if you're going to throw your principals away because someone made you feel icky. Don't use critical internet infrastructure to wage a campaign of hate and to organize rallies that ultimately culminate in a terrorist ramming attack against unarmed demonstrators? >The worlds gone sideways. There was a torchlit rally where people shouted "Jews will not replace us" and "Heil Trump." One of those in attendance was Matthew Heimbach, a white nationalist leader who previously assaulted someone at a Trump rally[1]. Heimbach has urged violence before and cheered stabbings[2] by his fellow Nazis as well. Part of Trump's base is engaging is white nationalist violence in the open. I agree, the world has gone sideways. [1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-nationalist-leader-pleads-guilty-in-trump-rally-case/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-nationalist-leader-pleads-... [2] http://archive.is/ZBOOa http://archive.is/ZBOOa

zcombo432 9y ago
Cloudfare used to market itself not too long ago ago as an entity that didn't censor speech. I guess things have changed. “A website is speech. It is not a bomb,” Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a 2013 blog post defending his company’s stance. “There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.” https://www.propublica.org/article/service-provider-boots-hate-site-off-the-internet https://www.propublica.org/article/service-provider-boots-ha...
- RandVal30142 9y ago
  Inciting violence has never been a protected form of speech.
  - dmitrygr 9y ago
    In USA, the supreme Court has stated that it is only not protected if it causes an IMMEDIATE risk to life. A website doesn't meet that bar, most likely, at least the way SCOTUS phrased it..

zcombo432 9y ago

Cloudfare used to market itself not too long ago ago as an entity that didn't censor speech. I guess things have changed. “A website is speech. It is not a bomb,” Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a 2013 blog post defending his company’s stance. “There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.” https://www.propublica.org/article/service-provider-boots-hate-site-off-the-internet https://www.propublica.org/article/service-provider-boots-ha...

RandVal30142 9y ago
Inciting violence has never been a protected form of speech.
- dmitrygr 9y ago
  In USA, the supreme Court has stated that it is only not protected if it causes an IMMEDIATE risk to life. A website doesn't meet that bar, most likely, at least the way SCOTUS phrased it..