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> KiwiFarms exists thanks to Cloudflare

Should cloudflare spin up an editorial board to decide what platforms to drop based on complaints? What about cases of poisoning the well, I can get my competitors taken offline by making ugly comments and complaining to cloudflare. It’s untenable, if a customer is breaking the law, let the law seize their servers, until then the service providers should not be adjudicators.

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>Should cloudflare spin up an editorial board to decide what platforms to drop based on complaints?

They already do that and they're called lawyers. And forbidden activities are collectively listed under "Term of Service."

You know what, you got me there. Cloudflare is free at any time to add "don't bully people into committing suicide" to its list of rules, at least that way the rule can be applied fairly instead of in a reactionary way.

Orgs can avoid such well-poisoning by not hosting unfiltered public comment.

That was the traditional solution.

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