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Do you believe your ISP should be allowed to drop you if you say something they don't like? What about your phone company? We, as a society, already forcing com
by _-david-_ 4y ago
Do you believe your ISP should be allowed to drop you if you say something they don't like? What about your phone company? We, as a society, already forcing companies to support content they don't endorse.
- BeefWellington 4y agoThose are bad examples; Telcos are almost universally heavily regulated and as such in many (most?) countries out there can't just refuse people service. Cloudflare is doing neither here. This is closer to Subway banning you than your phone company; it's highly optional to do business with CF.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoDo you believe that Kiwi Farms should be able to set up shop in a restaurant and peddle their hateful shit? What about an airline terminal? We, as a society, are already denying individuals and organizations the right to disseminate information while using our private property when it doesn't align with our goals and beliefs.
- curtainsforus 4y agoWhat about the site owner's water supply? The disagreement here seems to over whether Cloudflare is more like a restaurant, or more like a utility company. Given the ubiquity of DDOS attacks online, (and the fact that KF seemingly can't stay online without DDOS mitigation), I think there's a good argument to be made that DDOS mitigation might be more like a utility.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoIt's far closer to an insurance company than a utility. And either way, utilities aren't common carriers.