Several actually. I've posted this before, but I've had issues with their security people essentially stalking me after I made some negative comments here awhile ago. It seems most of those people have been fired or have resigned after all the bad press, but for awhile their security team was pretty far right.
The one that posted “I’m a nazi” among other things while employed there. I'm not being vague, that's the direct quote you can google. They were GNAA president (taking over for weev, the dailystormer admin), there's your ID.
weev also claimed he had another (different) sympathetic insider at cf supporting him with dailystormer or other activities, btw, but that's unverified
- Cloudflare offers hosting to everyone, including content such as this: Cloudflare are the Nazi fascists of the internet!
- Cloudflare makes decisions who to offer hosting to, refusing to offer hosting to Nazis and the like: Cloudflare are the Nazi fascists of the internet!
No matter what they do, they can never win; someone is always going to complain loudly.
For example, "we will serve anyone who will pay, as long as we don't break the law in doing so". That seems easy enough to do, I'd say. If you can't get a service provider to tell you in clear terms under what circumstances they may cut you off, they're not a provider you should rely on.
That would be situation one from the earlier comment, and would end with "Cloudflare are the Nazi fascists of the internet!" from some people.
It's also what the Cloudflare policy is, AFAIK, barring a few notable extreme exceptions which can be counted on one hand – a miniscule portion of their user base. I think it's too strong to say "they're not a provider you should rely on".
No. If Cloudflare's policy really is that they'll service anyone, and then they don't, that's called hypocrisy. Their actions are incongruent with their statements. There's no nuance that needs to be considered to criticize that behavior. They could just as easily be up-front: "we'll service anyone as long as it's convenient to us", or whatever condition they secretly hold.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5yxxg/cloudflare-is-protect...