Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, Content Moderation and the Internet Stack

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 9 a.m.

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This week on Lawfare\'s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Alissa Starzak, the head of public policy at Cloudflare\\u2014a company that provides key components of the infrastructure that helps websites stay online. They talked about two high-profile incidents in which Cloudflare decided to pull its services from websites publishing or hosting extremist, violent content. In August 2017, after the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Cloudflare\\u2019s CEO Matthew Prince announced that he would no longer be providing service to the Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. Two years later, Cloudflare also pulled service from the forum 8chan after the forum was linked to a string of violent attacks.

They talked about what Cloudflare actually does and why blocking a website from using its services has such a big effect. They also discussed how Cloudflare\\u2014which isn\\u2019t a social media platform like Facebook or Twitter\\u2014thinks about its role in deciding what content should and shouldn\\u2019t stay up.

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