Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again.
Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.
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.
Now, having made that decision, let me explain why it's so dangerous.
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But having the mechanism of content control be vigilante hackers launching DDoS attacks subverts any rational concept of justice
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(Basically this CEO admits his decision to ban the site was arbitrary and capricious. He says that so he can maintain the fiction that Cloudflare would not follow a government order to take down a website. But as he knows and admits, that is not necessary, pressure to be politically correct was enough)
thats okay force them underground where nobody is watching, yea that’s a good idea.
Criminalizing Freedom of speech is next, CALI is already trying it with the ‘wrong’ pronoun BS.
Soon Free Republic and Breitbart will be taken down. They start with the low hanging fruit and then...
Isn’t this the same site that’s banned at F.R.?
Well now they can go back to DUh where they belong.
So they don’t have to bake the cake?
I had a sudden epiphany today and realized that Progressive Virtue Signaling might be the Mark of the Beast.
They wear it like a badge.
You choose to take it on.
If you do, you must be totally committed to it.
Any deviation from Progressive dogma and you are shunned.
It is a Humanist thing to believe that you can be made perfect by your own actions.
It is becoming a requirement to work, transact business, etc.
Icehole?
It shows the danger of the “but it’s a private company they can do what they like” attitude.
The site’s DNS was also blocked. In other words their address was seized (or locked to be more accurate). This meant that even with a server up and running it could not be found. They were effectively unpersoned from the Internet. It could happen any site, including this one, all without the intervention of some big bad government.
A technical note: you could use only an IP address but that leaves the site open to DDOS attacks (the thing Cloudflare protects from)
Tucker Carlson discusses it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rO9boyLL0
Daily Stormer did reappear at a .lol address. Whatever you thing of Daily Stormer that is a bit of a LOL.