Should tech companies be able to shut down neo-Nazis?

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Should a tech company have that power? Even Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince, who personally decided to pull the plug, thinks the answer should be "No" in the future.

"The moment where this is about Nazis, to me, is very late in the conversation," Cohn said, citing past attempts to shut down political websites.

"What they do is they take down the whole website, they can't just take down the one bad article. The whole Recode website comes down because you guys say something that pisses off some billionaire."

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