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by xorcist 35 days ago
Can you seriously see no space between hosting people advertising DDoS-for-hire services and arbitrarily censoring the Internet? Is this what passes as civil discourse these days?

That's especially rich considering that Cloudflare is the actor perhaps best known for blocking access to the Internet for people who seek privacy. Have you tried using Tor during the past several years? Or just a lesser popular web browser?

Look, it's very simple. When any one of your customers is exactly the criminal you sell protection against, you drop them, otherwise you are aiding and abiding. Perhaps not exactly in the sense of the law, if you have expensive enough lawyers, but in practice.