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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 4159037" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I support cloudflare's decision to stop hosting 8chan. That's my personal opinion, not anything legal whatever. </p><p><a href="https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/" target="_blank"><strong>Terminating Service for 8Chan - cloudflare</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Rule of Law</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><em>We continue to feel incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter and do not plan to exercise it often. Some have wrongly speculated this is due to some conception of the United States' First Amendment. That is incorrect. First, we are a private company and not bound by the First Amendment. Second, the vast majority of our customers, and more than 50% of our revenue, comes from outside the United States where the First Amendment and similarly libertarian freedom of speech protections do not apply. The only relevance of the First Amendment in this case and others is that it allows us to choose who we do and do not do business with; it does not obligate us to do business with everyone.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Instead our concern has centered around another much more universal idea: the Rule of Law. The Rule of Law requires policies be transparent and consistent. While it has been articulated as a framework for how governments ensure their legitimacy, we have used it as a touchstone when we think about our own policies.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 4159037, member: 1"] I support cloudflare's decision to stop hosting 8chan. That's my personal opinion, not anything legal whatever.[B] [/B] [URL='https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/'][B][/B] [B]Terminating Service for 8Chan - cloudflare[/B][/URL] [SIZE=6][/SIZE] [B]Rule of Law [/B] [I]We continue to feel incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter and do not plan to exercise it often. Some have wrongly speculated this is due to some conception of the United States' First Amendment. That is incorrect. First, we are a private company and not bound by the First Amendment. Second, the vast majority of our customers, and more than 50% of our revenue, comes from outside the United States where the First Amendment and similarly libertarian freedom of speech protections do not apply. The only relevance of the First Amendment in this case and others is that it allows us to choose who we do and do not do business with; it does not obligate us to do business with everyone. Instead our concern has centered around another much more universal idea: the Rule of Law. The Rule of Law requires policies be transparent and consistent. While it has been articulated as a framework for how governments ensure their legitimacy, we have used it as a touchstone when we think about our own policies.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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