How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web

[Alt-Orange]

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-on-the-web

Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content.

The widespread use of Cloudflare’s services by racist groups is not an accident. Cloudflare has said it is not in the business of censoring websites and will not deny its services to even the most offensive purveyors of hate.

“A website is speech. It is not a bomb,” Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a 2013 blog post defending his company’s stance. “There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.”





Very interesting read. I have heard of Cloudflare a few times in the past, but I had no idea they were the go-to service for white supremacy.

[PoliticAverse]

1. On one hand people say how much they want "net neutrality", on the other they want offensive...

material eliminated.

[EarthFirst]

2. This.

As an ACLU member there have been times where I cringe on their stance; however their mission is undeniably reserved for all.