[NaliSauce]

There's a chilling effect to this. If checks and balances at cloudflare are so nonexistent that the CEO having a bad mood results in the company violating its own policy - well, you set the precedent no matter how much you're claiming that you didn't. Precedent is determined by your past actions, not by what you claim.

Blogging what appears to be post hoc rationalizations doesn't make this any better.

[skybrian]

You might compare this to a governor's power to pardon people. It's arbitrary (not rule-based and not based on letting the judicial system work). But it's limited to special cases mainly because the governor has better things to do than issue pardons all day.

[danarmak]

This is less like a governor pardoning people, and more like a governor condemning people without due process.

(The logic being that a pardoned criminal is a much lesser evil than a condemned innocent.)

[benchaney]

The reason a govenor how the ability to pardon people is because the scales are stacked infavor of the accused. This logic implies that the scales are stacked against free speech.