Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
by 9935c101ab17a66 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:22PM
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I don't think that's true. Cloudflare is just the most visible option at the moment, and probably (one of) the most cost effective.
> The size and scale of the attacks that can now easily be launched online make it such that if you don't have a network like Cloudflare in front of your content, and you upset anyone, you will be knocked offline. In fact, in the case of the Daily Stormer, the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who literally said: "Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet."
As far as I know, he's right. It's basically only Cloudflare, Google, and a handful of other megacorps that can keep your content online if someone's willing to pay a vigilante with a botnet to get rid of it.