They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?
What I know of them: they offer DDS brute force/spam protection for websites.
They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?
What I know of them: they offer DDS brute force/spam protection for websites.
No, I think the thing that you’re calling free speech isn’t free speech at all because there is no such thing implemented anywhere in the works. A genuine implementation of it would be explicitly more harmful than helpful.
What we have is speech restricted by the norms of our societies. All you’re arguing for is shifting the line to a different (more harmful) place, in the name of hypothetical ideal
And what we have with CloudFlare is a private entity that is virtually a monopoly, sustaining literal hate speech despite the harm hate speech does and doing so for the same reasons you’re here defending them. Because you value chasing an ideal that doesn’t exist over the needs of real people.
It’s also interesting that you conflate “anything to the right of Sanders” with Nazis and other hate groups. The fact that you’re painting my issue with the latter as being equivalent is cheap.
I don’t give a fuck whether you agree with me. I answered the OPs question. You’re not going to magically convince me that actually, hate speech is ok sometimes and should be protected.