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by BrainVirus 1380 days ago
Exactly as expected. The more websites CloudFlare bans, the more its reputation will sink, the more enraged and demanding the pro-censorship mob will become.

I note this one more time: almost no posts talking in favor of banning stuff here specify any objective limiting principle of where it should stop. It's like an exercise of deliberately creating a slippery slope.

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The slippery slope is banning DDoS-for-hire sites?

This is like complaining, "if Apple removes hate speech from its app store, then next people will ask it to remove malware."

But Brain virus, the slippery slope isn't real. It's a fallacy /s
Twitter seems to be the social lubricant that makes all slopes it touches slippery. It massively accelerates social change and was basically the only place the KF story ever gained any traction at all. It's hard to overstate just how powerful that site is in the USA.