In a financial form released Thursday, Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare admitted that they faced “significant adverse feedback” from users and potential customers over their banning of anonymous online forum 8Chan and the white nationalist Daily Stormer.
The CEO of web infrastructure giant Cloudflare has announced that the firm will blacklist anonymous online forum 8Chan following the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas. Cloudflare’s service offerings protect websites from cyberattacks such as DDOS attacks, designed to prevent sites from operating normally.
Millions of Americans cheered the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposed repeal of net neutrality, while others remain concerned about the repeal’s effect on the future freedom of the Internet.
Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince expressed remorse on Tuesday in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that his arbitrary decision to remove the Daily Stormer from his company’s services might endanger free speech on the internet.
Net neutrality advocates frequently warn about the perils of internet service providers (ISPs) censoring the internet yet remain remarkably silent when Cloudflare, Google, and other companies censor free speech.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that he “woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the internet” following his company’s decision to terminate service for neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer last week.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the largest digital rights organizations, has issued a warning to tech companies about censoring neo-Nazis, claiming the same tools will eventually be used against everyone else.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explained why his company suspended hosting for neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, Wednesday, branding them “assholes” and claiming, “I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the internet.”
Web service company Cloudflare revealed that due to a system error, some of their products accidentally leaked private user information from multiple websites.
As we reported over the past week, the hacking group Anonymous is waging war on the Islamic State. But the group claims that their efforts are being hindered by CloudFlare, a prominent Silicon Valley start-up that protects websites from cyberattacks.
