imanewsman
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Comment · 9 years ago
For some context, Bezos wrote this letter months after Amazon was awarded its infamous patent on one-click checkout. Amazon used the patent to sue Barnes & Noble and ultimately force it to add extra steps to the checkout on barnesandnoble.com. Bezos wrote this letter a few days after a scathing op-ed about the patent and the lawsuit came out in the NYT, but never chose to turn the patent over to the public domain. It's now been 20 years and the patent is expiring next month.
Comment · 9 years ago
I wrote a bit yesterday about Cloudflare's previous stance on this issue, which has always been that the company does not think it's its place to pick and choose whom it does business with:
https://qz.com/1053689/cloudflare-is-the-one-tech-company-st...
So far, Cloudflare has not made a statement or confirmed in any way that it has dropped Daily Stormer or any other website based on its content. If it does, I expect the confirmation will first come from Cloudflare's official blog:
The action would represent a major philosophical shift in the company's approach to these kinds of issues, and all we have to go on so far is a screenshot of a non-descriptive email, posted on a Gab.ai account that _appears_ to be run by the editor of a neo-Nazi website.
I'm not suggesting that Cloudflare has or hasn't done anything, just that we don't have a ton of information on this yet.