Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, Content Moderation and the Internet Stack

Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, Content Moderation and the Internet Stack

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—a 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’s 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—which isn’t a social media platform like Facebook or Twitter—thinks about its role in deciding what content should and shouldn’t stay up.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episoder(2878)

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 19

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 19

In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Vos...

22 Des 20251h 44min

Lawfare Archive: Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan Refugees with Madiha Afzal

Lawfare Archive: Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan Refugees with Madiha Afzal

From November 20, 2023: Over the past few weeks, the country of Pakistan has pursued an aggressive wave of deportations targeting thousands of Afghan refugees, some of whom have been in Pakistan for g...

21 Des 202543min

Lawfare Archive: Memorializing Babyn Yar after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Lawfare Archive: Memorializing Babyn Yar after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

From July 1, 2022: When a Russian missile recently struck a TV tower in Kyiv, near Babyn Yar, the site of Nazi mass murders during the Holocaust, some saw the attack as a potent symbol of the tragic o...

20 Des 202544min

Lawfare Daily: ‘Deportation, Inc.’ and the Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy

Lawfare Daily: ‘Deportation, Inc.’ and the Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy

Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with SITU’s Deputy Director of Research Gauri Bahuguna, Detention Watch Network’s Advocacy Director Setareh Ghandehari, the American Immigration Council...

19 Des 202545min

Lawfare Daily: Trump Admin Attacks on Inspectors General with Cristin Dorgelo and Rob Storch

Lawfare Daily: Trump Admin Attacks on Inspectors General with Cristin Dorgelo and Rob Storch

Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Cristin Dorgelo, a former senior adviser for management at the Office of Management and Budget, and Rob Storch, who served as the inspector general...

18 Des 202548min

Rational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an Open Fire” Edition

Rational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an Open Fire” Edition

This week, Scott down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein and Ari Tabatabai to talk through a few of the week’s big national security news stories, including:“Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop.” T...

17 Des 20251h 22min

Lawfare Daily: Scott Anderson on How Social Media Platforms Should Handle Unrecognized Regimes

Lawfare Daily: Scott Anderson on How Social Media Platforms Should Handle Unrecognized Regimes

Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speaks with Scott Anderson, Senior Editor at Lawfare, fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and non-resident senior fellow in the National S...

17 Des 202542min

Lawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Asymmetric Blueprint in the Black Sea

Lawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Asymmetric Blueprint in the Black Sea

At the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia held clear naval superiority in the Black Sea. Over the course of the war, Ukraine has developed an asymmetric maritime strategy using unmann...

16 Des 202538min

Populært innen Politikk og nyheter

giver-og-gjengen-vg
aftenpodden
aftenpodden-usa
stopp-verden
forklart
i-retten
popradet
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
fotballpodden-2
rss-gukild-johaug
det-store-bildet
dine-penger-pengeradet
rss-ness
nokon-ma-ga
hanna-de-heldige
aftenbla-bla
frokostshowet-pa-p5
rss-dannet-uten-piano
grasoner-den-nye-kalde-krigen
e24-podden