Cloudfare CEO: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and Id had enough.

[QED]

This is the message the CEO sent to employees this morning that was later released:

"Team:

Earlier today Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We’ve stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We’ve taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare’s services again.

This was my decision. Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I’d had enough.

Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision. It was different than what I’d talked talked with our senior team about yesterday. I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. I called our legal team and told them what we were going to do. I called our Trust & Safety team and had them stop the service. It was a decision I could make because I’m the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company.

Having made that decision we now need to talk about why it is so dangerous. I’ll be posting something on our blog later today. Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power."

A little more at link:

http://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to-neo-nazi-site-1797915295

[shenmue]

1. ...

[ck4829]

2. Good, Daily Stormer is a terrorist organization.

If they were Islamist, they would have had their assets frozen and I'm pretty sure drones would have been deployed yesterday.

[Phoenix61]

3. Cloudfare is not the only company that offers

that service is it? Daily Stormer is free to purchase a similar service from anyone they like.

[QED]

9. If the host will sell to them

Go Daddy and Google have kicked them off. I read somewhere that they were heading to the dark web. Maybe that will make it harder for them to recruit.

[Leghorn21]

4. Oh, niiiice. Well articulated, indeed!! nt

[QED]

8. Yep, he called it. They're assholes.

[BootinUp]

5. Well, he was right in everything he said. Nt

[JDC]

6. It's interesting how he's checking his own power

He's suggesting that he shouldn't have been allowed to make the decision that he did, but did it anyhow. The article at the link is more detailed in that regard. Again, Interesting. Thx.

[Bladewire]

7. Companies not supporting hate

I like this

[AgadorSparticus]

10. This is basic business 101. The alt right stepped out of bounds

And now companies/corporations have to protect themselves. They cannot risk being labeled as Nazi sympathizers. And out on their asses they go. Good riddance!

[Brother Buzz]

11. Convince me this isn't TheFerret's brother

[Egnever]

12. I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldnt be allowed on the Internet.

an interesting introspective look at his own company.

Obviously he does not have control of who or who does not get on the internet but he does have a large portion of the internet as clients.

I really like that he is aware of the power at his command and a little freaked out by it.