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> They are exact type of customer who need DDOS protection the most. > > They (KiwiFarms, Daily Stormer) would be better not on the internet. DDOS protection
by fjordelectro 4y ago
> They are exact type of customer who need DDOS protection the most.
> > They (KiwiFarms, Daily Stormer) would be better not on the internet.
DDOS protection only exists because some people are willing to illegally target websites they believe would be better not on the internet. It's the entire point. Folding to publish pressure for one customer weakens their case for protecting others.
- phillipcarter 4y agoDropping nazis from your service generally doesn't weaken the case for your service. For example, when Cloudflare did this in the past, it didn't harm their business.
- fjordelectro 4y ago> Dropping nazis from your service generally doesn't weaken the case for your service From the article: "In 2017, we terminated the neo-Nazi troll site The Daily Stormer. And in 2019, we terminated the conspiracy theory forum 8chan. In a deeply troubling response, after both terminations we saw a dramatic increase in authoritarian regimes attempting to have us terminate security services for human rights organizations — often citing the language from our own justification back to us."
- phillipcarter 4y agoNothing about that contradicts my statement. Cloudflare's business has been doing great ever since 2017.
- joshuamorton 4y agoMuch as cloudflare is choosing to ignore victims of harassment, cloudflare could simply choose to ignore the authoritarian regimes. It is not required to follow a particular definition of "fairness".
- yarrel 4y agoWe've already established that they are perfectly capable of ignoring people. The only people they listen to or care about are domestic nazis. Those nasty regimes should just register accounts on KiwiFarms and then CloudFlare will bend over forwards to help them.