I think there is a difference between profiting off of distributing pirated software, as this was the case, and normal piracy (especially media piracy). I'm not upset with this outcome.

I do agree generally to your position, but I'm not sure this is all there is to it. Let's say that these vehicles get really good at preventing crashes with jaywalkers. However, they have one weird quirk where every now and then they tend to jump the curb after misinterpreting the sidewalk as a shortcut. Even if the total number of deaths dropped, the population killed (people following the rules on the sidewalk) vs the population saved (people breaking the law) would change and we probably wouldn't accept the new balance. If it turns out this woman was jaywalking at 10PM at night and the autonomous car acted reasonably, then of course we should let it off the hook (the same way we would any driver).

If this had been HanAssholSolo's only reprobate comments, I would agree. However, even a cursory glance at his comment history on Reddit makes it seem like there is more to his trolling than a single CNN trump video... https://webcache.googleusercon... For example, he responded to a video of a 3 year old falling out a window and dying with the comment "Allahu Splatbar" because the video was from Turkey.

We did work with an attorney. However, I think Cloudflare (as should any other organization) should not share the name of the complainant. The accused doesn't need the name of the accuser to respond to the accuracy of the claim.

Meh. We worked with an attorney on the problem and they really were of little help. The cost of pursuing those avenues relative to the likely success was very low (the attorney told us as much). As for Cloudflare, I'm not particularly upset about the process except that they pass along the name of the complainant. I'm not sure why that is necessary.

I experienced this first hand. I was working for a client who was attacked by having hundreds of thousands of links pointed to their website with anchor text like "child porn" in attempt to ruin their brand. The spammers were effective and they had to change company names. I was able to track down a site that was owned by the spammer after the spammer also created a duplicate copy of the website with a porn related domain name. Cloudflare was able to reveal to us the IP behind them, but by the time we received this information, the spammer had taken to the web and posted hundreds of thousands of new comments with my first and last name accusing me of all sorts of stuff (although not CP). Ultimately we were able to scare the spammers off their game, but the issue was quite clear. Services like Cloudflare (which I think are great) do create an additional veil of anonymity for unscrupulous individuals and their abuse policies pass the names of the complainant on to the unscrupulous individuals, allowing retaliation.