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- Jun 2, 2019
Does Cloudflare have a legal right to block access to the site if they are not your host? Does it constitute a breach of contract for them to restrict traffic without notice and without communication to you?
Of all the stupid things this represents, the one that scares me the most is that Matthew Prince didn’t just drop Null, but is effectively censoring his own customer actively at the behest of a third party even though presumably the site is paid up through the end of the month.
Is he doing this using access to the network given as a result of the service agreement?
It would be bad enough if he just suspended service due to pressure from the mob, but Prince has taken active hostile steps apart from that to limit access to the site.
I’m not suggesting that Null get sucked into pointless legal action, but it’s worth doing the due diligence to figure out if this is legally or contractually appropriate. It could help in both public statements and private negotiations with Cloudflare.
Either way, the precedent is catastrophic.
Of all the stupid things this represents, the one that scares me the most is that Matthew Prince didn’t just drop Null, but is effectively censoring his own customer actively at the behest of a third party even though presumably the site is paid up through the end of the month.
Is he doing this using access to the network given as a result of the service agreement?
It would be bad enough if he just suspended service due to pressure from the mob, but Prince has taken active hostile steps apart from that to limit access to the site.
I’m not suggesting that Null get sucked into pointless legal action, but it’s worth doing the due diligence to figure out if this is legally or contractually appropriate. It could help in both public statements and private negotiations with Cloudflare.
Either way, the precedent is catastrophic.