Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

I recall this post[0] from cloudflare's CEO about when they terminated daily stormer back in 2017, and particularly this quote:

> Like a lot of people, we’ve felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network.

This is overall a very reasonable take and one I support from a player the size of Cloudflare: They should aim to remain as neutral as possible instead of enforcing arbitrary blocks on sites they disagree with.

Now, this post is from nearly 10 years go and I'm sure there have been many more cases that happened since then, their methodology likely did evolve, but I don't mind them protecting any site, regardless of their opinion towards its content.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922

How do they know that behind the scenes Cloudflare has not handed over whatever IP and financial information they have on the attackers to the feds? AFAIK such things would not be disclosed until the attackers are locked up and the case is closed assuming such details are ever disclosed at all.

Because cloudflare is and always has been a bad actor. They protect all sorts of illegal stuff.

Because their entire racket is providing MITM and DDoS as a service.

This is the dumbest post I’ve read. The attackers have a site seemingly hosted by/orange clouded by Cloudflare. They aren’t providing botnet or DDOS capabilities. Cloudflare tries to act as a third party that follows the law when the law gets involved. They don’t want to actively police the internet in the same way they don’t actively abolish piracy (see Anna’s Archive). There are exceptions to this of course, but on average I don’t find it necessary for Cloudflare to knock down the site of the attackers because they sell illegal services. Isn’t this what HN bitches about anyways, CF being a centralised authority? Now you’re bitching that it’s not using its centralisation powers?

So Cloudflare can sell DDoS protection to Canonical.

The post seems skip explanation of what Cloudflare's involvement is?

and white supremacists, but not sex workers?

Remember that Cloudflare does a MITM on every connection to every website they front.

CF not only protects them... they have real time intelligence on who is getting attacked, who is paying for it, and all the parameters of the attack (type, volume, duration, etc).

What would your sales team give for leads this hot?