Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

Post by ITB » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

wrxd wrote: post #158

socalgal2 wrote: post #145

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> He phrases it to be as if the free tier is a favor Cloudflare does to the world, as if it's not obviously a loss-leader designed to get more people into the Cloudflare ecosystem. It can be both. I run many open source websites behind cloudflare. It's the same as github. All the free hosting and free CIs and free issues/discussion forums, and free code review for open source repos (90% of all open source projects?)…

What market share would they have without offering the free tier? Much lower than what they have now, and that would make for a more decentralised and resilient internet

Post by great_wubwub » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

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andy99 wrote: post #3

I don’t know the backstory but Cloudflare arguing for an open internet is super ironic, presumably he means they want the be the one to close it off and are upset that someone else is ruining their monopoly on it.

USian tech-CEO posting petulant self-serving arguments about "FREEDOM" on twitter? what a cliche cloudflare have deliberately designed their network so that every IP can serve up every cloudflare website this means a court order can't block a single cloudflare site without blocking every cloudflare site, causing massive collateral damage I suspect this is a deliberate business decision: an attempt to raise the "cost"…

Post by 0xy » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

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I read the tweet twice and I don’t see any mention of free speech. What he’s describing, when you look past the rhetoric, sounds ridiculous: a single medium sized country is demanding power to institute global blocks of content on the internet? If that’s an accurate description, that’s deeply concerning for the long term viability of the internet.

He is mentioning Vance and Musk as beacons of democracy and free speech.

Post by 0xy » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

bakies wrote: post #94

undeveloper wrote: post #87

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> And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

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Post by linkregister » Fri, Jan 09, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

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Don't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.