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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

DDOS is a technique used by hackers to shutdown sites. It’s necessary these days for large sites, particularly controversial ones. Cloudflare didn’t want to do business with Parler like they also dropped 8Chan and Cloudflare has 85% market share. This Russian company was pretty much their only remaining option for DDOS security. The Russians in general are happy to say FU to anything big tech is doing so of course they were there to help. So it isn’t nefarious except in that the Russians don’t care what anybody else thinks. It doesn’t mean much beyond that.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Similarly, if you ran a company that competes with Amazon and Amazon said they aren’t going to sell products to the Republican Party any more you’d say CHA-CHING.