some good takes in this response but complementing jd and elon was absolutely not necessary

One must be thankful to him for removing the illusion that Cloudflare is some benevolent, neutral US company fighting for a more secure internet.

My risk acceptance is not big enough to have all Cloudflare-secured websites in my country to go offline just because someone from my country has a Twitter fight with a member of the US administration or with the Cloudflare leadership.

	▲	blibble a day ago \| parent [-]
		> One must be thankful to him for removing the illusion that Cloudflare is some benevolent, neutral US company fighting for a more secure internet. yeah it's great isn't it now all anyone has to do to discredit cloudflare is point to their CEO's pro-elon posts the AI slop picture at the bottom really sells it too

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hn_go_brrrrr a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He's just sucking up to them to get them to act on his behalf.

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HDThoreaun a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was necessary to get them to take action. The only thing the current administration cares about is public image so publicly fellating them is what you need to do to get them to go to bat on your behalf.

	▲	jacquesm a day ago \| parent [-]
		He runs a private company, not a government institution and I'm sure they can pay a lawyer to sue the Italian entity if it displeases him so much. Like everybody else would.

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Pedro_Ribeiro a day ago | parent | prev [-]

When did Hacker News start talking like Reddit?