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I mostly agree that is the claim that they are making. I already quoted the relevant part of the earlier blog, so here's the part from today's:

"While we believe that in every other situation we have faced — including the Daily Stormer and 8chan — it would have been appropriate as an infrastructure provider for us to wait for legal process, in this case the imminent and emergency threat to human life which continues to escalate causes us to take this action."

I say "mostly" because there is also the interpretation that they believe there were multiple appropriate actions in the earlier cases. I still feel it's a 180 turn from the earlier blog post, though. They set out a clear principle just last week, and already have found an exception that they neglected to mention.

Edit: This doesn't necessarily mean that their revised approach is wrong, just that it's a turnaround.




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