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Cloudflare takes the right approach of being content neutral.

• kordless 12y ago
  Agreed. They are infrastructure.
• deleted 12y ago
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• ForHackernews 12y ago
  Also, if you're selling a DDoS-protection service, it's good business to not work too hard shutting down DDoSers.
  • pktgen 12y ago
    AKA racketeering.
    • ForHackernews 12y ago
      Really nice website you got here...be a shame if anything happened to it...
• freshyill 12y ago
  It seems completely reasonable to include terms preventing this type of behavior on their service.
  • MichaelGG 12y ago
    Except it wouldn't stop there. If CF blocks bot services, then they should of course block places selling drugs. Drugs kill people unlike botnets. And actually, sites promoting drugs are equivalent to sites promoting suicide. So block both of those. And come to think of it, botnets only exist because of hackers, so we should probably get those blocked, too. It's unfortunate there's any limit on hosting. LE can still go subpoena CF and use judicial channels like always. CF should stay in the anti DDoS business and just annoy everyone with their captchas instead of implementing law and morality. Child porn seems to be the exception, as it's easier to look at "stopping" such things getting near our visibility, instead of worrying about the actual incidence of the problem. (See Craigslist where AGs preferred to shut down a system they had access to, since that's visible, preferring to force "adult" users to buy and sell in uncontrolled markets.)