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Great that it's finally launched. I've been on the waitlist for months. That said, I'm very ambivalent about Cloudflare. On the one hand, I love them because
by losvedir 7y ago
Great that it's finally launched. I've been on the waitlist for months.
That said, I'm very ambivalent about Cloudflare.
On the one hand, I love them because they're doing a lot of cool stuff (shoutout to kentonv whose sandstorm project I loved, who works there now), and even own a bit of their stock.
On the other hand, them being an infrastructure company but also wading into what travels over their pipes makes me uncomfortable. I get that 8chan was horrible (and Stormfront before that, IIRC), but it shows more discretion than I'd like that that level of the stack. They seemed to be more hands-off in the past, so I wonder if the IPO changed that at all.
A policy question: forbidding 8chan as a Cloudflare customer is one thing, but what if someone was using Warp and tried to load wherever it is they moved to? Would Warp block that?
- allworknoplay 7y agoThey didn't block requests to 8chan, they simply won't provide services to the site. If you're using cloudflare for DNS lookups, 8chan resolves just like any other non-cloudflare customer.
- teddyh 7y ago…until someone gets the media going about it, at which point they block it. And that time, they will have a precedent.
- Avamander 7y agoSo far it has been tried but both registrars and DNS resolvers have resisted such censorship attempts unless it has been law enforcement and even then it has been local.
- bryan_w 7y agoYup just wait for the "Cloudflare allows access to domestic terrorist sites" headline next time the CEO pisses off the NYT
- kentonv 7y agoThanks for the shoutout! I wish we could have an actual conversation about the 8chan thing, but the public debate is far too emotionally charged for me to touch. :(