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it does raise questions about who gets to decide (and on what grounds) who stays online
There will always be some kind of authority. Even a human-less robot governed world will have robots. There is a reason why anarchism has never brought a successful revolution. There will be some basis of judgement probably forever.
Sure, I never said there isn’t, or that there should not be. I only said that this question is raised.
In an anarchist context this can be community consensus, I guess. In nation state context, this can be a government decision or a court order. And so on.
What I am trying to underscore here is that the fact that a company’s decision to not do business with a particularly toxic customer should not be of such immense consequence. And the only reason it is is because of CloudFlare’s position.
CloudFlare’s position is a bigger problem than CloudFlare’s policies.
There will always be some kind of authority. Even a human-less robot governed world will have robots. There is a reason why anarchism has never brought a successful revolution. There will be some basis of judgement probably forever.
Sure, I never said there isn’t, or that there should not be. I only said that this question is raised.
In an anarchist context this can be community consensus, I guess. In nation state context, this can be a government decision or a court order. And so on.
What I am trying to underscore here is that the fact that a company’s decision to not do business with a particularly toxic customer should not be of such immense consequence. And the only reason it is is because of CloudFlare’s position.
CloudFlare’s position is a bigger problem than CloudFlare’s policies.