Cloudflare Removes Warrant Canary: Thoughtful Post Says It Can No Longer Say It Hasn't Removed A Site Due To Political Pressure

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[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

What an interesting article.

  1. Terminated a customer or taken down content due to political pressure*

Now, you might notice that at the end of number three, there's an asterisk. That was done when Cloudflare kicked up quite a debate after it decided to remove Daily Stormer from its service. The asterisk was more or less a nod to the idea that things can be a bit more complicated than "political pressure." Cloudflare kicked off Daily Stormer because its CEO got sick of a bunch of neo-Nazis laughing and joking about Cloudflare for protecting them and keeping them online. Is that political pressure? Seems pretty subjective.

Cloudflare's treatment of a rule is entirely subjective. By applying their own rules to what counts as violations, they havent just killed the Canary.

They roasted it and ate it for dinner.

In August 2019, Cloudflare terminated service to 8chan based on their failure to moderate their hate-filled platform in a way that inspired murderous acts.

8chan is never coming back.

[–]Tarrock 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

8kun.top

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

0.0

[–]Cade_Connelly_13 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

XD surprised?

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Extremely surprised. It seemed like they had died and gone to internet heaven