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by account42 1786 days ago
> They host everyone equally.

Everyone except those that are too right wing.

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Are you referring to the one incident where they stopped hosting a racist hate site and then vowed to never take sides again?
Yes. Also to the incident where they stopped hosting 8chan after they vowed to never take sides again.

You can agree with Cloudlare not providing services to those sites as much as you want, but you cannot pretend that Cloudflare hosts everyone equally. They cannot use that as an excuse to not deal with spammers.

Well, that one incident shows that they don’t host everyone equally. A very simple and obvious conclusion.
One data point is not a pattern.
Two: Daily Stormer and 8chan.
Know of any equivalent "left wing hate sites" that cloud flare hosts unbanned?
"He has never murdered anyone" "Are you referring to the one incident where he shot a racist hater and then vowed to never murder again?"

All I'm saying is that we won't know until they come under pressure again

> All I'm saying is that we won't know until they come under pressure again

That's also true of people who haven't murdered anyone yet, though.

Whom do you trust more? The person who did something and vowed to never do it again, or the person who didn't vow anything? I tend to prefer the former.

When it comes to murdering someone, I'm going to prefer the person who has never murdered anyone yet.

When it comes to service providers, I would tend towards your direction. They did a thing that had conflicting ethics on each side, weighed the outcome and their ethics, and then made a hard decision for the future. What they did could be reversed, too, and didn't cause much permanent damage.

Murdering someone is very permanent and should take a lot more initial consideration.

this metaphor is absurd. the actual murderers here are the contributors to the banned sites, nor cloudflare, and there were a lot more than 1 murders.