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Except under the current "Net Neutrality" rules, we've seen Cloudflare shut down Stormfront because the CEO woke up in a bad mood. If Net Neutrality really wor
by caseysoftware 9y ago
Except under the current "Net Neutrality" rules, we've seen Cloudflare shut down Stormfront because the CEO woke up in a bad mood.
If Net Neutrality really worked the way everyone described, it would be great and I would be all for it.
As is, it appears to be more of a religious mantra instead of an actual policy.
- zachwood 9y agoCloudflare isn’t an ISP.
- zaarn 9y agoCloudflare is not directly an ISP (they do operate their own network and BGP though, so they are) for this case, rather, they were the hosters and Stormfront were the customers. While I'm personally not happy that they killed a site they don't like, the site was still just a customer and it has nothing to do with Net Neutrality.
- caseysoftware 9y agoSo if a service provider can take any content offline, it doesn't matter if ISPs block content or not. That renders the entire "it protects controversial ideas!" point seems moot.
- kthejoker2 9y agoIf you self host, no one can take your content offline. The rules are about distribution not storage.