Decoder with Nilay Patel

Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender


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Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from bad actors. When everything is going well, you don't even have to know it exists. It's one of the only defenses — sometimes the only defense — standing between websites and the people who want to take them down.


Protecting free speech on the internet around the world, across war zones and hundreds of different kinds of government, is no easy feat. That puts the company, and CEO Matthew Prince, right at the heart of some of Decoder's biggest challenges and themes. 


Links: 

  • A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet | The Verge
  • Why security company Cloudflare is protecting U.S. election sites for free | Fast Company
  • The Daily Stormer just lost the most important company defending it | The Verge (2017)
  • Cloudflare to revoke 8chan’s service, opening the fringe website up for DDoS attacks | The Verge (2019)
  • Cloudflare blocks Kiwi Farms due to an ‘immediate threat to human life’ | The Verge
  • Why Cloudflare Let an Extremist Stronghold Burn | Wired
  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince interview on Ukraine cybersecurity | Semafor
  • 3 ways the ‘splinternet’ is damaging society | MIT Sloan

  • Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23885440


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