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And, thus, censorship, now that Silicon Valley has taken freedom of speech to the DNS level.

They booted the daily stormer, knowing full well the ramifications:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

"Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet."

If you read the details of that decision, they're pretty interesting - they only did it because people were claiming CloudFlare were supporting their ideas.

Matthew Prince basically said "this is dangerous" and a month or two later that exact decision was being used against them in court to take down a copyright infringer.

Not saying one way or another about it being a good or bad decision, but they definitely knew they were setting a scary precedent when they did it.

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