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Posts like this make me really wish this site had a downvote button.
Why would you downvote a 100% true statement like Cloudflare is destroying the Open Internet
the only part I disagree with in the article is their assertion that Government is needed to stop cloud flare
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> Cloudflare has pushed against public sentiment [..] to restrict censorship. Except when they booted sites off their network because Twitter users were upset..
Upset over serious, credible, actionable, threats of violence against other people hosted on those sites.
This is a silly piece, but the claim that Cloudflare is so big that they can push sites around doesn't make sense. Not everyone has released 2022 revenue yet, but in 2021 Akamai took in $3.5B to Cloudflare's $0.66B, Fastly's $0.35B, and Edgecast's $0.29B. Then consider that while we don't have separate revenue numbers for Amazon Cloudfront, Google Cloud CDN, or Azure CDN they're all serious contenders. If Cloudflare offers you bad terms you have many other companies that want your business.
Cloudflare has pushed against public sentiment and mildly against the government to restrict censorship. They would want nothing more than be just "delivery infrastructure" part of the internet. All the points about transparency, monopolies, and privacy concerns and implicit trust in general level are true, of course. They should be addressed. If you want to resist attacks and deliver content efficiently you need CDN…
> Cloudflare has pushed against public sentiment [..] to restrict censorship. Except when they booted sites off their network because Twitter users were upset..
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Upset over serious, credible, actionable, threats of violence against other people hosted on those sites.
Was it... I think you may want to research those events more
Posts like this make me really wish this site had a downvote button.
It does for comments... ;) Why would you downvote a 100% true statement like Cloudflare is destroying the Open Internet the only part I disagree with in the article is their assertion that Government is needed to stop cloud flare
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Cloudflare has pushed against public sentiment [..] to restrict censorship. Except when they booted sites off their network because Twitter users were upset..
I personally don't trust any of my businesses to run on it after this, and have been advising business partners and people I advise to steer clear of it. I know it's not much, but it's been mid to high 6 figures in revenue i've had shifted elsewhere. Having a business possibly be crippled won't pass any sort of risk management, and clearly shows they don't rank highly on any sort of organizational maturity scale.
It's nice that you have the option to take such a professional attitude that can advise companies in the abstract based on free speech absolutionism, but the details really matter.
I know too many Americans genuinely believe that free speech absolutionism is the only way to prevent a descent into 1984 authoritarianism, but Canada and Europe seems to have found a way to restrict nazis and threats of violence against races and LGBTQ people and ending the "slippery slope" there.