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Cloudflare has also come out directly in support of "net neutrality" (https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/net-neutrality/).

Broadly speaking, there's (at least) two forms of net neutrality:

1) Different classes of traffic will be treated identically and not throttled indiscriminately (VOIP vs web content vs bittorrent etc.)

2) Content cannot be arbitrarily restricted by a technical provider.

If there was substantial abuse with their platform based upon technical reasons in case 1, I could see that as cause for termination.

Their arguments against denying service to 8chan are based upon case 2. Given where Cloudflare sits in the internet infrastructure layer, their supporting a pro-net neutrality position enforced upon ISPs while not applying that standard to themselves strikes me as more than a tad hypocritical.




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