[DrDimension]

A private company must act as public infrastructure once it becomes a de facto monopoly.

[prawnsalad]

Your argument aside, Cloudflare is definitely not a monopoly. There are many, possibly hundreds, of different CDNs that run at scale.

[madeofpalk]

What is Cloudflare's share anyway? Akamai would be #1, right?

[smt88]

None of the companies discontinuing relationships with 8chan are monopolies. In some cases they're just the last in their category to finally drop 8chan.

[Arrezz]

I've always been intrigued by this, do you think that platforms such as YouTube should be considered public infrastructure? And if so for what reasons?

[anigbrowl]

I'll take that argument seriously when it's accompanied by proposals to buy it out and nationalize it to run at cost rather than make a profit.

[mrguyorama]

A company selling compute resources to run web servers is not even close to in a monopoly position

[castis]

edit: nah

[DuskStar]

It might not be true in the general case yet, but it's certainly a sentiment I can get behind. Privately-owned toll roads shouldn't be able to ban political opponents - why should the Internet equivalent be different?

[DrDimension]

The regulation applied to electric and telephone companies in the US...

How can people be this ignorant of recent history?