| "how long you think a US company ( or any) can ignore block requests."
- Funny thing is I posted about this issue with cloudflare many moons ago when there quite a few articles boohooing CF - many from euro / uk - protect the children type things. At the time I suggested that Cf should get ahead of the issue by splitting up the company and the infrastructure - so they could have a CF_UK and a CF_US and CF_Whatever - bifurcating the services as each country and area starts crafting more and more demands. Big companies often do manage to do business in many parts of the world and have different ways of managing business in one place different than the next. It's strange how highly controversial web sites can exist with ICAAN not prohibiting domain names, and sites can usually find hosting somewhere - but as soon as you get to DDoS protection, and domain re-registration different places start throwing up morals and panics, refusing services. Cloudflare got a lot of people using it, and big money investing it by offering to protect the pipes of the net.. they did good for a long time protecting information by staying a neutral pipe. As I saw the NGO demands that CF grow louder, I assumed legislation would force thier hand to either start blocking when X or Y place asked - not just when DOJ had a court order - and that feild would get murky, meaning they'd have to bifurcate to handle different cultures in different ways eventually.. But it was not courts, it was not new laws. It was the emotions of a single guy that turned big pipes into blockable canals - it was one guy that decided time and time again to start to judge words / pics / information and block things. On a whim, in a knee jerk fashion, without warning - and now no one could know if they are safe when seeking the safety of the open web. It's a fuzzy needle - what's okay changes on occasion with no fanfare, not committee, no rails. It's their own trivial changes, I assume are controlled by the fbook or twitter feed that CEO gets pushed in his emotes. So CF is now fair game for all the cancel culture to push around - get the 'right' demanding X thing be blocked - get the left to demand Y thing get blocked - let's enjoy this fun game. Our censor wars got to the point where mural of Washington had to painted over and kids books are banned. Cf can protect all the PG-13 content of the net from DDoS and be a multi-million dollar company! I guess it could be, there are those who want to remove sesame from the airwaves - it might need protecting. It can be a big company following all the rules of each country in the world and the extra rules that run the emotions of the main guy and the demands whatever groups that think whatever X should be blocked. |