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Wikileaks and Piratebay are customers of CF, so your 'legal speech' must be really something. Any links?

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke to CNBC upon banning Daily Stormer: “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,’” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told CNBC.

“We had to have the conversation now because at some point we’ll be a public company. We had to prompt that discussion,” said Prince, who added “we want to be ready internally by July 2018,” for a possible stock offering.

CNBC Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/24/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-princ...

Editorials discussing the event: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-to-draw-the-li...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...

Yes, and then they banned 8Chan just the same (I think? One of those sites where a shooter talked to his friends) as soon as they were under pressure.

Likely the reddit model. Don't ban anything until it hits you in the pocket book.

If I'm not mistaken, 8Chan also hosted a lot of illegal content in addition to that "legal speech".

And yet, it was not for anything illegal that they were taken down.

I don't know if it's how it played out, but it's easy to see how increased scrutiny could have lead to the illegal content being highlighted and them getting dropped because it was then reported (possibly many times by many parties that wanted the site shut down for other reasons).

In that case, they still would have been taken down because of the illegal content, even if at an (extremely simplistic) surface level the timing seems to indicate otherwise.

Maybe GP is referring to 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3, the DNS resolvers that filter malware and malware+adult content respectively? Both are optional alternatives to the unfiltered 1.1.1.1 DNS service if so...

The only ones I can think of are The Daily Stormer and 8chan

Likewise many DDoS-for-hire services, un-ironically.

Dosninja.com for example (there are dozens, though not all Cloudflare protected).

Unlike "free speech" sites, the entire point of a DDoS-for-hire site is to suppress speech.

Nice to be able to get it both ways!

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