<story><title>Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-stream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsmarigo</author><text>I know you guys took major issue with the Cloudlfare takedown of DailyStormer but try to look at the big picture. Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials. How big a role the internet played in the mess we find ourselves in today as a country, that&amp;#x27;s up to future historians to argue, but make no mistake the impact is massive and unlike anything we&amp;#x27;ve ever seen. The spread of hate and bigotry on the internet left unchecked has now lead to real loss of life which is what prompted CloudFlare&amp;#x2F;Reddit&amp;#x2F;Facebook to push these new policies. How, in the face of actual murders can you contend that these companies are wrong to take down these websites?&lt;p&gt;Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech?&lt;p&gt;Tech companies didn&amp;#x27;t choose to be the society police, yet here we are.</text></item><item><author>OzzyB</author><text>If I wanted to create an alternative to YouTube with a conservative bent what are the chances Cloudflare will wake up one morning and shut me down?&lt;p&gt;What if the content is just generally in &amp;quot;bad taste&amp;quot; and not overtly Neo-Nazi, will CF feel the need to play &amp;quot;Content Cop&amp;quot; or are they willing to abide by their role as utility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>powertower</author><text>&amp;gt; Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials.&lt;p&gt;Name one person harmed by the site?&lt;p&gt;If you have ever seen a page of DailyStormer, you&amp;#x27;d either laugh or go away.&lt;p&gt;No one has ever killed anyone after reading a few paragraphs on that site.&lt;p&gt;Putting in the argument of &amp;quot;Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech&amp;quot; is not an honest way of describing censorship of content that is silly at its worst and dumb at its best.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-stream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsmarigo</author><text>I know you guys took major issue with the Cloudlfare takedown of DailyStormer but try to look at the big picture. Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials. How big a role the internet played in the mess we find ourselves in today as a country, that&amp;#x27;s up to future historians to argue, but make no mistake the impact is massive and unlike anything we&amp;#x27;ve ever seen. The spread of hate and bigotry on the internet left unchecked has now lead to real loss of life which is what prompted CloudFlare&amp;#x2F;Reddit&amp;#x2F;Facebook to push these new policies. How, in the face of actual murders can you contend that these companies are wrong to take down these websites?&lt;p&gt;Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech?&lt;p&gt;Tech companies didn&amp;#x27;t choose to be the society police, yet here we are.</text></item><item><author>OzzyB</author><text>If I wanted to create an alternative to YouTube with a conservative bent what are the chances Cloudflare will wake up one morning and shut me down?&lt;p&gt;What if the content is just generally in &amp;quot;bad taste&amp;quot; and not overtly Neo-Nazi, will CF feel the need to play &amp;quot;Content Cop&amp;quot; or are they willing to abide by their role as utility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pen2l</author><text>Good points, I want to add:&lt;p&gt;We just witnessed something very significant, when Russia interfered. They had an express goal and they carried it out with technologies we know.&lt;p&gt;A medium that is absolutely free of censorship is not in your best interest, because it can and will be used to compromise you.&lt;p&gt;The solutions are difficult, but what is clear (especially to folks who have had to moderate even a small channel or forum) is that a policy of no-censorship never scales in the real world, the question is how you do it, where to draw the line, etc..</text></comment>