NY Times Op-Ed Blasts Cloudflare for Daily Stormer Terror

[jdb10987 at yahoo.com (jim bell)]

 On Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 10:50:40 AM PDT, Marina Brown <catskillmarina at gmail.com> wrote:
 
 On 09/13/2017 07:04 AM, John Young wrote:

> The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-stormer-charlottesville.html
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> Terrifying!
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>I have a feeling that Internet Registrars and Cloudflare are doing this
for their own legal protection.


I have a feeling that you are inventing reasoning that would be, in itself, illogical and quite stilted. Â Sure, deluded people exist, but organizations who are in control of such things have a responsibility to not abuse their authority.


>It's long established law that conspiracy to commit genocide, ethnic
cleansing and to violate the human rights of groups of people is a
crime. Creating the theoretical framework for genocide is also a crime
as was evidenced by the conviction of Julius Streicher who authored
Daily Stormer's predescessor Der Sturmer.

>It's Cloudflare and Registrars protecting themselves from being
complicit in human rights crimes.

>And you know what. I don't blame them. I wouldn't piss on Andrew Anglinif he was on fire.


Sorry, but you are not even hundreds of miles away from being correct on this. Â To label DNS service, which is essentially monopoly, as supporting "genocide" is about 3-4 leaps of logic, far too much to work. Â A few nuts spouting nonsense is far, very far, from "conspiracy to commit genocide". Â Merely providing necessary net services to them, just as is done for thousands of sites, cannot possibly be described that way. Â  Maybe you just have no respect for the concept of "Free Speech". Â Â 
             Jim Bell




  
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