Cloudflare on Daily Stormer
2017-08-16 23:42:24.887714+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I have been struggling with a lot of philosophical issues around various companies terminating their services of the Daily Stormer web site. As someone with friends who've had sexually explicit content on the internet, and all of the challenges they've gone through, I'm super sensitive to cries of "censorship". It is not, for instance, lost on me that until pretty much *today* it has been far far more difficult to get web hosting or credit card payment services for anything remotely related to sexual content than for hate publications.
I've been weighing the moral imperative to punch a Nazi vs "love thy neighbor", and pondering when speech becomes violence.
This is helping me: Cloudflare: Why we terminated Daily Stormer
Our team has been thorough and have had thoughtful discussions for years about what the right policy was on censoring. Like a lot of people, we've felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network. We could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support by Cloudflare.
More at Gizmodo: Cloudflare CEO on terminating service to the neo-Nazi site.