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This is the same company that has repeatedly gone to the mat to ensure Nazi’s and targeted hate campaigns remain active online. But this is where they draw the
by mhoad 4y ago
This is the same company that has repeatedly gone to the mat to ensure Nazi’s and targeted hate campaigns remain active online. But this is where they draw the line?
They have on multiple occasions had long and public campaigns talking about how important it is to fight censorship in all its forms except a random DMCA troll in Hong Kong?
I don’t think Cloudflare really love “free speech” as much as they pretend in their public messaging.
- Jamie9912 4y agoThey weren't hosting anything..
- mhoad 4y agoYou know exactly what I mean here. I’m going to update the post though.
- breakingcups 4y agoListen, the stuff is on their hard drives, being served by their servers through their public IP addresses. I don't care whatever backend method they use to update their cache from some other origin, by all accounts they are hosting and serving it.
- Jamie9912 4y agoIt's not on their hard drives. Why don't you go and complain to Telco providers, and undersea cable infra for forwarding pro-nazi bits.
- strangeattractr 4y agoThey’ve never gone to the mat to defend free speech. They make a public statement indicating the discomfort they feel blocking content and then they censor it a few days later.
- viraptor 4y agoThey have in this case https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731108822077443 https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731108822077443 I don't have the case docket link easily available, but it was referenced somewhere around that thread.
- kklisura 4y agoThey draw the line on a legal request. You don't want them to break the law, do you? There's a difference between pulling content off due to your disfavor of the content itself and legal requests to take it off.