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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke to CNBC upon banning Daily Stormer: “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,’” Cloudflare CE

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke to CNBC upon banning Daily Stormer: “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,’” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told CNBC. “We had to have the conversation now because at some point we’ll be a public company. We had to prompt that discussion,” said Prince, who added “we want to be ready internally by July 2018,” for a possible stock offering. CNBC Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/24/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-prince-explains-why-he-booted-the-daily-stormer.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/24/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-princ... Editorials discussing the event: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-to-draw-the-line-on-hate-speech-online/2017/09/01/025eab10-89da-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-to-draw-the-li... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-stormer-charlottesville.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...

fennecfoxen 6y ago
Yes, and then they banned 8Chan just the same (I think? One of those sites where a shooter talked to his friends) as soon as they were under pressure.
- debacle 6y ago
  Likely the reddit model. Don't ban anything until it hits you in the pocket book.
- LordDragonfang 6y ago
  If I'm not mistaken, 8Chan also hosted a lot of illegal content in addition to that "legal speech".
  - yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    And yet, it was not for anything illegal that they were taken down.
    - kbenson 6y ago
      I don't know if it's how it played out, but it's easy to see how increased scrutiny could have lead to the illegal content being highlighted and them getting dropped because it was then reported (possibly many times by many parties that wanted the site shut down for other reasons). In that case, they still would have been taken down because of the illegal content, even if at an (extremely simplistic) surface level the timing seems to indicate otherwise.
transpostmeta 6y ago
So it's literally Nazis.
- jonny_eh 6y ago
  There's always a line, and therefore, I'm ok with drawing the line at Nazis.
  - frandroid 6y ago
    slow clap for HNers downvoting this and the parent answer...
    - zajd 6y ago
      Nazism is pretty popular on HN, comes with the territory when most of the board's users are well off westerners. Doesn't hurt that the mods are way more concerned with anti-capitalist rhetoric. Not surprising considering who owns the site though.
    - deleted 6y ago
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  - AnthonyMouse 6y ago
    > There's always a line This is where you've gone wrong. There isn't always a line, some businesses are in the business of selling products and services and not in the business of policing content. And if some of their customers are pedophiles or the like then have the police arrest the pedophiles and leave the fry cooks and gas station attendants out of it, even if the pedophiles eat food and drive cars.
    - deleted 6y ago
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    - Certhas 6y ago
      Would you have an issue if a printing shop said no to doing business with a Nazi newspaper?

fennecfoxen 6y ago

Yes, and then they banned 8Chan just the same (I think? One of those sites where a shooter talked to his friends) as soon as they were under pressure.

debacle 6y ago
Likely the reddit model. Don't ban anything until it hits you in the pocket book.
LordDragonfang 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken, 8Chan also hosted a lot of illegal content in addition to that "legal speech".
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  And yet, it was not for anything illegal that they were taken down.
  - kbenson 6y ago
    I don't know if it's how it played out, but it's easy to see how increased scrutiny could have lead to the illegal content being highlighted and them getting dropped because it was then reported (possibly many times by many parties that wanted the site shut down for other reasons). In that case, they still would have been taken down because of the illegal content, even if at an (extremely simplistic) surface level the timing seems to indicate otherwise.

transpostmeta 6y ago

So it's literally Nazis.

jonny_eh 6y ago
There's always a line, and therefore, I'm ok with drawing the line at Nazis.
- frandroid 6y ago
  slow clap for HNers downvoting this and the parent answer...
  - zajd 6y ago
    Nazism is pretty popular on HN, comes with the territory when most of the board's users are well off westerners. Doesn't hurt that the mods are way more concerned with anti-capitalist rhetoric. Not surprising considering who owns the site though.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago
  > There's always a line This is where you've gone wrong. There isn't always a line, some businesses are in the business of selling products and services and not in the business of policing content. And if some of their customers are pedophiles or the like then have the police arrest the pedophiles and leave the fry cooks and gas station attendants out of it, even if the pedophiles eat food and drive cars.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - Certhas 6y ago
    Would you have an issue if a printing shop said no to doing business with a Nazi newspaper?