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You also need DDoS protection. Cloudflare has booted people off for naughty speech before and got away with it, so no reason to expect anyone else in the game wouldn't.


Was that when the CEO penned a letter that started "I kicked X off the internet because I was in a bad mood this morning"?IIRC, even they felt this power was a bad thing at the time, even if the instance of it was ok


You're thinking of when they quit providing DDoS protection for The Daily Stormer. I don't think it was an easy decision for him at all.

Here's the full quote:

>Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power.

Here's the EFF article about it with some good links for context:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-fut...


Booted people from its hosting services, or booted people from their DNS service? These are not the same.


Booted people from its DDoS-protection services.


> naughty speech

Neo-nazis who claimed that Cloudflare supported them.




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