Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach

The two rights at play would be:

> Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers

> Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks

> Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

In my opinion, it's a relatively clear case, though I reckon sometimes there might be a grey area.

Article 19 says you're free to express your opinions and ideas to others through any media. So you should be able to do so on the internet as well.

Article 12 says that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.

To me, this means your thoughts and ideas you express cannot arbitrarily interfere with others privacy, home, correspondence, or attack their honor or reputation without due cause.

This means that doxxing is not acceptable, hacking and revealing private information you obtained without consent isn't acceptable unless you have due cause (whistleblowing for matters of laws being broken). Harassment is not acceptable either, because it's interference with ones right.

You'd need a court to establish what right you broke, and this is probably what we're lacking today, since a large percentage of the voting population doesn't actually value all human rights equally, I think the courts have been hesitant to enforce them, and so the right to privacy isn't particularly respected, but the right to express opinions or private information and harassment is strongly defended. Since the courts are failing, people are having to take the case to the public spheres.

Finally, Article 1 says that everyone is endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. I included this one because it too clearly rejects harassment and hate. It clearly mandates that people must act in spirit of brotherhood with everyone else. Obviously all behavior that go against that is not supported by the human rights.

It is, however, a design flaw that a publicly traded corporation run by some dude (a cool dude) is in the situation of determining who can and cannot communicate on the Internet.