[thosakwe]

This is a pretty un-charitable/misleading reading of the original Tweet. The journalist in question did not say that CloudFlare was responsible for the shooting (that would be a pretty outrageous claim), but that 8chan is able to still exist, in part, due to the fact that they are a CloudFlare customer. Two fundamentally different things.

That being said, the wording that 8chan "receives protection" from CF is also a bit misleading, because it's not a gift from CF, but a service the admins presumably pay for.

I don't think CF should be receiving the blame for this incident at all - DDOS protection isn't what's hosting hateful content, letting it sit and fester unmoderated, letting terrorists get their hands on high-powered weapons, sitting in Congress avoiding taking any actual action, etc.