[HN Gopher] Cloudflare Pressured to Drop Kiwi Farms After Latest...
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       Cloudflare Pressured to Drop Kiwi Farms After Latest Doxing Effort
        
       Author : IfOnlyYouKnew
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-08-22 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | IfOnlyYouKnew wrote:
       | How many articles, podcasts, tweets, and comment replies did it
       | take to finally put a dent into the endless repetition of the
       | myths about Section 230? Cloudfare is continuing to use the very
       | same faulty logic: that, somehow, preventing the most egregious
       | misuse of their service would create some sort of requirement to
       | do so perfectly, in every case, or to assume liability for
       | everything crossing their servers.
       | 
       | There is no such mechanism in either law, logic, or morality.
       | 
       | Morally, rescuing a drowning child does not create a requirement
       | for you to rescue every person in danger of drowning, everywhere.
       | Because that would obviously disincentivize anyone from ever
       | helping, and it would also just be impossible to do.
       | 
       | Legally, there just is no law or principle of that kind. The laws
       | that exists, for specific domains, do the opposite: Good
       | Samaritan Laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law)
       | protecting individuals rendering help, as in the drowning-child
       | example, from any liability, including for failing in that very
       | rescue effort, for whatever reason.
       | 
       | More similar to the Cloudflare case, Section 230 does exactly the
       | same, but for publishers on the web.
       | 
       | As to logic: if you once jumped into the water and got that child
       | out, just in time, people may indeed expect you to do it again,
       | under similar or easier circumstances, because they remember that
       | you are a good swimmer.
       | 
       | But in the Cloudflare case, acting in the obvious case does not
       | change anything, _because there is absolutely no doubt_ that they
       | have the ability to shut down any customer they do not want on
       | their service. Doing so therefore does not give any (valid) extra
       | ammunition to further requests to act.
        
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