[fareesh]

Political neutrality is important for the tech industry. I appreciate Cloudflare trying its best to be neutral. When harm is done, the fault lies at the feet of the perpetrator. Blaming their utility company, hosting provider, DNS registrar, grocer, butcher, barber, etc. is lunacy.

[8note]

In the US at least, the getaway driver is to blame even if all they did was drive a car and receive payment for their driving

[yardstick]

Sure, but what about the company that they rented the car from? Or the company they bought car insurance from?

In the eyes of the law, the intent of the person is often (not always) extremely relevant.

[zimpenfish]

> Sure, but what about the company that they rented the car from? Or the company they bought car insurance from?

I expect if they said "I want to rent a car to use as a getaway vehicle for a bank robbery" whilst standing next to a TV showing a picture of them committing a bank robbery, yes, the rental company would have some culpability.

[yardstick]

Did cloudfares customer tell them they wanted their services for DDOS?

[mike_d]

By the nature of how Cloudflare works, you have to provide them with your domain name and the content of your website.

See if you could come up with a simple regular expression to deny services to these well known DDoS providers that are actively using Cloudflare:

CryptoStresser.com Instant-Stresser.com FreeStresser.so StresserAI.com Booter.sx Flystress.net Bootyou.net

[teddyh]

Say you go to a bank to get a loan, and you give the bank your details, including your address. The address you give is in a notorious crime-infested neighborhood. Does the bank have the moral obligation to deny you a loan, in order not to support criminal activity? I mean, they most likely will. However, most people instead like to attribute this behavior to banks being racist. Are you saying that this should instead be mandatory for the banks to do?

[acover]

Even if they take an unsuspecting taxi?