What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Mon Aug 5 16:57:08 UTC 2019


On 8/5/19 9:24 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
> On 8/4/19 11:41 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
>> What can we do better as network operators about hate sites like 8Chan?
> I actually went and looked at 8chan, it would appear to me they have a bunch
> of hate filled people there, 10 yr olds who think saying the n-word makes them
> cool, and then other bland users.
>
>> I applaud cloudflare’s (perhaps slightly late) decision on kicking 8chan
>> off its platform today after El Paso attack.
>> https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
> I'd be more concerned with the lack of notice given to their customer.  This
> was 24 hours notice, and I'd expect at least 30 days under any hosting
> contract.  This scares the shit out of me as a customer; could cloudflare
> decide to give me no notice and shut my services off?
>
Well, we don't know what led up to this. Like do we know they weren't on 
notice?

Mike




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