[sourthyme]

The issue (I believe according to the author) is that Cloudflare is now choosing to withhold protection for Kiwi Farms, taking a moral stance and should be more responsible for other moral obligations or none at all. IE. Should they stop providing protection for more sites? When is the next Kiwi Farms?

I don't agree with the author because it is still early (and the author might be putting Cloudflare under pressure for some personal gain in some rhetoric), but these questions are interesting and is part of the cancel culture we are seeing more of.

[Cyberdog]

As they mentioned in their article on Wednesday, cutting service to site A means that they're going to get a lot of angry people and/or governments wondering why they could dare to provide service for the equally vile (in their eyes) sites B, C, and D. They've just exacerbated this situation.

[worldofmatthew]

The problem is that demand for Cloudflare services is furthered by allowing illegal booters. If thoes sites were not protected by Cloudflare, they would attack each other offline. That would be the death-nail for most DDOS-for-Hire operations and the few remaining would raise prices, making it nearly impossible for a single person to boot other offline.

By allowing the attackers to use their services, while deciding other websites are not allowed to. Cloudflare is removing others freedom of speech.