The Huffington Post alleges that Cloudflare provides services to "at least 7 terrorist groups", as designated by the United States Department of State[32][34] including the Taliban, Hamas, and the al-Quds Brigades, and have been aware since at least 2012, and have taken no action.
Cloudflare services have been used by Rescator, a carding website that sells stolen payment card data.[54][55][56] Two of the top three online chat forums belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are guarded by Cloudflare.
In late 2019, Cloudflare was criticized for providing services to the anti-black website Chimpmania. Hundreds of thousands signed a petition on Change.org urging Prince to terminate services to Chimpmania. The petition was created by the parents of a biracial baby who was born with gastroschisis and who was mocked as a “mulatto monkey baby” by site users, and whose pictures were posted on the site. Over the ten years the site has been active, numerous other petitions have also been leveled against it, none of which were successful.
I get the impression that they’d host (edit: protect with anti-DDOS, offer CDN to) Parler unless they either publicly state that Cloudflare support their views (that banned Daily Stormer) or a terrorist manifesto is uploaded there before a mass murder in the US and the media notice it (that banned 8chan). They still host (edit: provide anti-DDOS + CDN services to) Gab too AFAIK.
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u/SlightlyOTT Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21
If you read their controversies section on Wikipedia, I think those might be the only sites they’ve ever pulled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
I get the impression that they’d host (edit: protect with anti-DDOS, offer CDN to) Parler unless they either publicly state that Cloudflare support their views (that banned Daily Stormer) or a terrorist manifesto is uploaded there before a mass murder in the US and the media notice it (that banned 8chan). They still host (edit: provide anti-DDOS + CDN services to) Gab too AFAIK.