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Cloudflare Provides Cybersecurity for at Least 7 Terror Groups
- orliesaurus 8y agoI remember when they shut off that stormer site[1]. So apparently how do you decide who to shutdown: How does this affect net neutrality and all that. Where do you draw the line? [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
- phendrenad2 8y agoCloudflare provides cybersecurity for a lot of politically unpopular groups, such as groups criticizing totalitarian regimes. Whenever I see someone bashing Cloudflare, I just assume it's someone with an axe to grind.
- briandear 8y agoThe al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is the very definition of a terrorist group. They aren’t criticizing— they are blowing people up. Setting yourself of fire — that’s speech. Suicide bombing- that’s not speech. You can criticize and even hate. But when that turns to the promotion of killing innocent people, that crosses the line from dissent to terror. If white supremacy is taken down but groups that actually blow up innocent people as a tactic are not taken down, that’s a weird inconsistency. This would be a non story if Cloudflare were consistent. By taking down the white supremacist sites but not taking down al-Aqsa, Cloudflare has taken a position inconsistent with content-agnostic management of their platform. Hamas could be debated, but there isn’t any logical reasoning behind al-Aqsa being allowed while white supremacists aren’t. Both groups are far beyond “criticizing totalitarian regimes.” If we can’t see the moral difference between al-Aqsa and dissidents, then we have lost the plot.
- phendrenad2 8y agoI don't think you understood my comment at all.