Cloudflare stopped supporting hate site Kiwi Farms. How defensible is their justification?
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Cloudflare stopped supporting hate site Kiwi Farms. How defensible is their justification?

ByJosh Bernoff

Should internet infrastructure companies desert sites that spread hate? That’s a very hard question. Let’s look at one recent instance — Cloudflare withdrawing its product from Kiwi Farms — and analyze the statement they make to justify their extraordinary actions. Who is Kiwi Farms? Kiwi Farms is an online community for trolls who harass people…

Cloudflare deplatforms 8chan. Have we figured out where to draw the line?
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Cloudflare deplatforms 8chan. Have we figured out where to draw the line?

ByJosh Bernoff

The unmoderated site 8chan has hosted some horrifying things, including a hate-filled manifesto that appears to be from the shooter in the El Paso massacre. After 8chan’s cloud network and security provider Cloudflare dumped it, I began to wonder if we’d finally figured out the boundaries of the legitimate internet. The question of what content…