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A reminder that Cloudflare kicked off Switter, a social network for sex workers with zero notice, and zero evidence of any harms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876040 https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17256370/switter-cloudfla...

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A reminder that Cloudflare is a private company. They can choose who to do business with. They are fully entitled to kick any entity off their service for any reason or no reason at all.

A reminder that private companies are not exempt from criticism merely because their actions are within the letter of the law.

Criticism is detrimental to the originator if it is not valid. My reminder was pointing out the invalidity of the "criticism". It is not a criticism to point out totally normal behaviour of a company. It is like saying "American Airlines kicked out two people not following the crew's instructions from their flight, even though they had paid for tickets!".

It's their company, their plane, their website, their platform. Obey the rules or GTFO.

Let me get this right: private companies/citizens can drop business from anybody with zero notice and any amount of harm because "they're private", but private companies/citizens can't express criticism because harm? Do I get that right, is that your reasoning?

Private entities you like can do anything and private entities you don't like can't do anything to the ones you like, because?

People can criticize. I never said they can't! I'm just saying the particular criticism in this case was quite lame and didn't make any sense.

Where?

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