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Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender
Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince joins Decoder to explain what Aristotle has to do with internet infrastructure.
Over the last decade, Matthew has had to make the call when to stop providing service to websites like those, even as he’s championed Cloudflare as a bastion of free speech and a tool used by journalists, activists, and dissidents in authoritarian regimes. And we discussed how Cloudflare looks at its role in war zones like Ukraine and how the threat of a splintering internet — or one that’s just more restrictive and more aggressively under attack from bad actors — could undo the last 40 years of progress. I think a more direct question is, would you be more comfortable if the United States government passed a rule that said, actually, Cloudflare can’t kick people off the service and just took that decision-making authority away from you, which would preserve a more open internet but maybe makes a different tradeoff in terms of speech?
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