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Well, we've been using infrastructure (like DNS) as a weapon for a decent time. I still remember when CloudFlare decided to drop Storm Front thinking... They've
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
Well, we've been using infrastructure (like DNS) as a weapon for a decent time. I still remember when CloudFlare decided to drop Storm Front thinking... They've opened Pandora's box. I suppose this is just the next step.
Sad that it has to get this far for people to suddenly get squeamish about it.
- ceejayoz 5y agoBeing so afraid of a slippery slope that you're too permanently paralyzed to take steps on a nice flat plateau has its own risks. CloudFlare seems to be doing just fine, and a private organization declining to do business with a neo-Nazi forum doesn't cause much worry for me. ICANN's responsibilities are very different than CloudFlare's, and the proposed action has much wider scope and impact on innocents in the dispute. They're not at all comparable scenarios, and I believe CloudFlare and ICANN both made the right decisions in the respective cases.