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It's political activism to terminate service over TOS violations? It was pretty simple really - all they had to do was not lie about Cloudflare endorsing them
by sophacles 2y ago
It's political activism to terminate service over TOS violations?
It was pretty simple really - all they had to do was not lie about Cloudflare endorsing them (per the contract that had extremely standard boilerplate language about such things).
People seem to get really upset when Nazis are held to the same basic contract law standard anyone else would be held to. Just because the politics of promoting hate makes it hard to find vendors, it doesn't mean that vendors need to make a special TOS just to coddle those that do.
- kbolino 2y agoI think you assume this detail is widely known about the affair, but I didn't know about it. Here's an article from the time describing what happened: https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to-neo-nazi-site-1797915295 https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to... Importantly: “I realized there was no way we were going to have that conversation with people calling us Nazis,” [CloudFlare CEO Matthew] Prince said. “The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”
- trte9343r4 2y agoI do not know background of that. But Stormer at some point also endorsed Hilary Clinton (as a satire). I could imagine they were trolling BBC or CNN, that compared Cloudflare to nacist, for not censoring them.