| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707821 "A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer and former ski instructor. CEO & co-founder of CloudFlare." And oh my God. He is "recovering lawyer". This is what he concluded with: "Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech, in order to have a more robust conversation with frameworks that have an appeal and applicability across nearly every nation and government." So this exactly the reasoning of those (bad? good?) cops that beat suspects in alley, or conduct search on private property without a warrant. And this cop then turns around and says: "Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than your civil rights" The term for this type of action is Extrajudicial -- possibly our recovering lawyer remembers that from law school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_punishment To repeat, Cloudflare has every right (afaik) to just say "bad client, we don't want you". This CEO however chose to frame this as some sort of civic virtuous action necessitated by alleged failings of our "traditional legal systems". [edit] |