This has nothing to do with Kiwifarms, it's just same story all over again. It happened before and I bet it will happen again.
1. Some awful website uses Cloudflare.
2. Something ignites outrage that Cloudflare is protecting that awful website.
3. Cloudflare initially refuses to take it down, arguing that they are neutral infrastructure providers.
4. Twitter-amplified outrage keeps growing
5. Cloudflare caves in and kicks that site off, posting about that this is only due to very recent emergency (which is nonsense, they serviced these sites for years and nothing materially changed).
6. ???
7. No profit, go back to step 1.
My prediction: because they cannot stick to their stance, every cycle makes it more probable that next attempt will succeed, until nobody will believe in infrastructure provider interpretation and they will be forced to estabilish some moderation.
1. Some awful website uses Cloudflare.
2. Something ignites outrage that Cloudflare is protecting that awful website.
3. Cloudflare initially refuses to take it down, arguing that they are neutral infrastructure providers.
4. Twitter-amplified outrage keeps growing
5. Cloudflare caves in and kicks that site off, posting about that this is only due to very recent emergency (which is nonsense, they serviced these sites for years and nothing materially changed).
6. ???
7. No profit, go back to step 1.
My prediction: because they cannot stick to their stance, every cycle makes it more probable that next attempt will succeed, until nobody will believe in infrastructure provider interpretation and they will be forced to estabilish some moderation.