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by jcims 3338 days ago
CloudFlare doesn't promote anything, it just helps sites survive DDoS attacks (which are illegal).

This piece seems to be needlessly focused on one part of the stack rather than asking the broader question of what role commercial organizations should play in suppressing voices that society no longer wants to hear.
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tchaffee 3338 days ago
> it just helps sites survive DDoS attacks

That's false. CloudFlare also passes along the personal contact information of people who complain about the hate sites. I agree CloudFlare tries to hide behind the "we are only providing a service" excuse, but it is their choice to put blinders on about who they provide services to. According to the article, the only reason they shy away from providing services to ISIS is because it's illegal. If it were legal, CloudFlare would help ISIS... kill and terrorize the world. That says it all for me.

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jcims 3338 days ago
That's required for transparency and they indicate as such directly on their abuse page: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form

This kind of thinking will drive service providers to invade customer privacy as a risk management strategy. How could Amazon, for example, allow customers to operate private workloads if society expects them to police said workloads for undesirable conduct?

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tchaffee 3338 days ago
"That's required for transparency"

Other companies handle abuse reports just fine without ever having to give away the identity of the whistle blower.

> This kind of thinking

A public website is not a private workload. You are comparing apples and oranges. And in any case, Amazon prohibits offensive content in their acceptable use policy. https://aws.amazon.com/aup/. If someone reported you for unacceptable use, count on Amazon invading your "privacy".

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