ITPRO: For Cloudflare, hate speech is too profitable to give up
"security and performance company Cloudflare has now terminated its relationship with notorious online imageboard 8chan, firing the customer in the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso. For instance, numerous reports have alleged that multiple terrorist organisations, paedophiles and violent misogynist groups all use Cloudflare's service to protect their websites. Neo-nazi outfits Stormfront and the Nordic Resistance Movement, as well as Islamist organisations like Hamas, the Taliban and even ISIS were cited by the Counter Extremism Project. As of March last year, Stormfront was still a Cloudflare customer, according to posts on the site by the organisation's founder."
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