>has never terminated a customer or taken down content due to political pressure
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
No comment on whether or not the termination was justified.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
No comment on whether or not the termination was justified.
By political pressure they mean pressure from a political entity, that is, a government. That's what I'm assuming anyways, I'd love for a Cloudflare representative to confirm.
It seems to be a catch-22 to me.
Now, we'd be screaming "PEDO" from the rooftops while calling for castration and prison, or even execution. What actually happened, was marrying when you were 13 as a female was the norm. It was OK. She had 4 children.. And if you asked her, had a wonderful life.
But in a fairly short time, social norms went from "Puberty means you're an adult, or darn near one" to 'pushing up the definitions of adulthood up to 21 year olds'. And in this case, the social norms were also backed by loads of well-meaning laws that end up being abhorrent in practice (how dare two 17 year olds sext pictures, but they can have as much sex as they want).
If you didn't learn from 2016, laws and words matter. A lot.
I also doubt it was ever the "norm" in the modern civilized world. A quote from wikipedia [1]:
"In the last decades of the [16th] century the age at marriage had climbed to averages of 25 for women and 27 for men in England..."
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...
I think back to the Skokie Nazi trial on how this should have played out. The Constitution wasn't for protecting when times and situations were good, but when they were off the rails and terribad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
Cloudflare tried to be this impartial "we're only a data delivery agent - we make no ethics claims of anyone who uses our service - we're a common carrier like service".... Except when it came down to the hard decisions, they sided in smashing the canary into tiny pieces.
What The Stormer did was claim that since Cloudflare accepted them as customers, Cloudflare must have been sympathetic to their ideology and secretly Nazis themselves. The Stormer made a pretty big deal out of this, potentially doing severe damage to Cloudflare's reputation and driving away customers.
If The Stormer had kept their mouth shut and not made a big public thing out of it, Cloudflare would probably still be providing services to them.
Instead, they forced Cloudflare's hand by claiming them as ideological allies.