[faded242]

I don't think you've tried to report abuse to CloudFlare before, have you? Your analogy is actually further off. CloudFlare IS aware of the abuse and illegal activity. They DO condone it through their inaction. They claim since they aren't the actual source of the content, they don't have to do anything about it, effectively letting the criminals and scammers continue their abuse behind their shield. They have all the capability in the world to respond to valid abuse complaints, and actually stop the abuse, but they actively choose to allow it.

[maxander]

If they start accepting takedown requests as a general policy, though, they become an attack vector themselves. Their customers would start getting calls saying "give us $LARGE_SUM in untraceable bills or there'll suddenly be thousands of plausibly-authentic complaints that your $VALID_BUSINESS is actually a malicious site"; no one wants that. They've decided to not make themselves the internet police for a reason.