I can see 3 reasons why CloudFlare is protecting the site of LizardSquad, first 2 of which are really bad reasons: 1. Perhaps their logic is, if they protect L

I can see 3 reasons why CloudFlare is protecting the site of LizardSquad, first 2 of which are really bad reasons: 1. Perhaps their logic is, if they protect LS's site, perhaps LS is less likely to attack services behind CloudFlare in fear of taking out their own site in the processes. I am not saying that CloudFlare does this out of fear of LS, perhaps they just think it's a sound business practice. 2. CloudFlare directly and significantly benefits from the illegal activity of LS and other DDoS organizations. DDoSers are the boogyman, and CloudFlare protects people from the boogyman, for money. The more boogyman attacks are there, the more people flee to the protecting arms of CloudFlare. 3. CloudFlare has the attitude that they are simple an ISP, or a router of traffic, and they are not responsible for any of the content on the sites they "distribute." This is a good position legally to take. As my friend, a prosecutor, jokingly points out, "everything is illegal." So, some country or another would be able to find something objectionable about almost every single site on the internet, and CloudFlare want's to be treated like an ISP, not responsible at all for any of that stuff. But let's say the content in question wasn't a DDoS site, but a child porn site, would CloudFlare be so adamant in their stance, I don't think so. Even ISPs quickly disconnect their customers from the internet when clear and easily verifiable allegation of child porn, piracy, fraud, or bonnet operations are presented to them. Basically, CloudFlare is not responsible for LS, but they should be a good Net citizen, and drop them voluntarily. That being said, they are not going to for reasons # 1 and 2.