My company runs a a bunch of large community products and we run cloudflare in front of them to handle frequent DDoS attacks. We also pay for a cloudflare enterprise plan though.
The other side of the coin is them dropping a custom for other reasons.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922
But they will continue to protect genocidal regime services: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/07/cloud...
Is immediately after. And a person died. Clouflare are aware that they shouldn’t exist. They exist because they solve a problem that our telecoms networks and government/regulatory apparatus won’t. And it’s regarding the daily stormer.
Cloudflare keeps protecting the Russian state because if they don’t Russia will develop the technology themselves and then eat some of Cloudflare’s lunch. The effectiveness of a single period of successful DDOS attacks in a whole war is debatable.
It’s easy to stop a handful of neo Nazis. The Russian state is a lot harder. If you want Cloudflare to do it get the government to force them.