James House-Lantto (He/Him)We all agree, hate-speech is bad, Harassment is bad, but EFF makes the case that this should NOT be the job of infrastructure companies. Facebook, Twitter, etc, should police their platforms, however core infrastructure entities such as Cloudflare, GoDaddy, and the like, probably should not.
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The Internet Is Not Facebook: Why Infrastructure Providers Should Stay Out of Content Policing
Cloudflare’s recent headline-making decision to refuse its services to KiwiFarms—a site notorious for allowing its users to wage harassment campaigns against trans people—is likely to lead to more calls for infrastructure companies to police online speech. Although EFF would shed no tears at the...