content: Freedom of speech depends on developing a CDN that can not be used to censor someone The reason 8chan is down today is because the CDN cloudflare removed them, essentially exercising their right to be non-net-neutral. Net neutrality means I don't care what my customers are doing, as long as they are not breaking the law I treat them fairly. Cloudflare has said, "even though what 8chan is doing is not illegal, I am going to take the law into my own hands and censor them." The problem with 8chan not having something like cloudflare is that they can not protect them from a Denial of Service attack which is often carried out by a botnet. This is the same kind of attack that currently plagues voat.co. If cloudflare were forced to be net neutral towards 8chan and voat.co, then we wouldn't both have our services down to the public. One of the most important things that society needs right now is an alternative to a CDN that any individual can spin up, so that you don't have to depend on a company like cloudflare to decide for you if your content is ok for the internet or not. Currently no such CDN alternative exists. You must rely on some company somewhere to protect your service from DOS attacks. If every single major CDN decides to block you, you are censored from the internet. This is bad, because if you are not breaking the law, your freedom of speech should be protected. This brings us into 1984 territory.