Hacking collective Anonymous is accusing six-year-old Silicon Valley startup CloudFlare of helping ISIS online, according to The Guardian. The company is allegedly providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattacks, a popular tactic used by groups such as Anonymous, for pro-ISIS websites.
CloudFlare does not seem to discriminate when it comes to customers and claims that they have done nothing wrong, according to Business Insider.
"A website is speech. It is not a bomb," Matthew Prince, the company's executive chief, said. "There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain."
"If we were to receive a valid court order that compelled us to not provide service to a customer then we would comply with that court order. We have never received a request to terminate the site in question from any law enforcement authority, let alone a valid order from a court," Prince added.
Anonymous declared war on ISIS earlier this week and has taken down thousands of Twitter accounts related to suspected extremists, as previously reported by HNGN. In addition to ISIS, the group has also conducted cyberattacks against groups such as Mastercard, Paypal and the Church of Scientology, according to UPI.
