CloudFlare opened Pandora's box. It will never be able to shut it.
When private companies become enforcers of public morality, you will quickly find morality is shaped by what is profitable. This is a horrible idea.
When private companies become enforcers of public morality, you will quickly find morality is shaped by what is profitable. This is a horrible idea.
If you want to abolish the system allowing corporations levels of power effectively equivalent to public utilities and branches of government, we can have that conversation. But if you want to continue them to have that and are still outraged about their decisions it's not because of a principled stance about them being "enforcers of public morality", you just disagree with their morality.
All of these attempts at moderating the internet always get misused, the scope forever expands, and usually does little IRL to stop ideas from spreading (even the FBI example resulted in a massive Streisand effect, because censorship immediately makes people pay attention).
Trusting billion dollar tech companies with this responsibility should be treated like crazy-talk. Even stuff like transparency on motives, transparency on algorithm changes, processes for challenging it, etc etc, are usually not part of the deal.