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Whether or not you believe him, the CEO claimed [1] he dropped them because they falsely claimed they had his support, not because of the content of their websi
by danans 9y ago
Whether or not you believe him, the CEO claimed [1] he dropped them because they falsely claimed they had his support, not because of the content of their website.
1. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
- caseysoftware 9y agoIt's worth noting that was the public statement.. the internal email[1] was less altruistic: > "This was my decision. Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I’d had enough. > Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision. It was different than what I’d talked talked with our senior team about yesterday. I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet." 1 - https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to-neo-nazi-site-1797915295 https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to...
- brailsafe 9y agoWow. That is bold. In most ways I think that is an insane abuse of power. In others...I kind of respect it. Effectively it amounts to probably nothing, but for a period of time that's a proper GTFO
- danans 9y agoAlso, FWIW, according to the Wikipedia page, they are back online, with their site now protected once again by CloudFlare.