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DNS and internet security provider Cloudflare has blocked Kiwi Farms, an infamous forum known for its online and real-world harassment campaigns. CEO Matthew Prince announced the company’s decision on Saturday after it initially resisted calls to stop protecting the website. “As Kiwi Farms has felt more threatened, they have reacted by being more threatening,” Prince […]
Enlarge / It’s not free, but it’s as close as you can get with TLDs and ICANN taking a cut. (credit: Cloudflare) Cloudflare, the content delivery network and website security provider, has increasingly been pushing into businesses that intersect with its core missions. Earlier this year, the company rolled out a new, free DNS service […]
Inside Cloudflare’s San Francisco office, 100 units of Edward Craven Walker’s groovy hardware help guard the internet. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1594a444335046642e3e8e/master/pass/WI070118_AP_LavaLamps_LO_01.jpg
Enlarge / Cloudflare’s DNS service uses the 1.1.1.1 address. (credit: Cloudflare) AT&T has been blocking the new Cloudflare DNS service, but AT&T says the blocking was unintentional and that it will fix the problem soon. The blocking is affecting AT&T home Internet customers who use an AT&T gateway. Cloudflare unveiled its DNS service on April […]
If you’re privacy-minded, you probably aren’t thrilled that governments seem hell-bent on giving internet providers free rein over your browsing data. Cloudflare just gave you a tool to fight back, however. It launched 1.1.1.1, a free Domain Name System service (the technology that translates IP addresses to web domains) that promises to prevent ISPs from […]
Cloudflare today announced its first consumer service product, which is aimed at making web browsing more private. The company launched a new public Domain Name System (DNS) resolver service that’s supposed to protect users from spying while speeding up their experience on the web. And no, it’s not an April Fools’ joke. DNS resolver services provide computers […]
The story of how an internet infrastructure company get locked into a free-speech dispute starts in the cubicles of SoMa and the brothels of Istanbul. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a5abf71b55d5f798f8284d6/master/pass/cloudfare.jpg
Enlarge / Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince at a 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt conference in London. (credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Until recently, CloudFlare prided itself on its unwavering commitment to free speech. Even when he was criticized for providing service to alleged terrorist groups in 2013, CEO Matthew Prince stood firm, insisting that “a website is speech. […]
Cloudflare pulls the plug on a white supremacist site, after years of declaring neutrality. https://media.wired.com/photos/5994e19bba0c7811c3ae4ca8/master/pass/Stormer_Credit_Oddjob.jpg Feed: All Latest
The CEO of Cloudflare said he is “deeply uncomfortable” with his own decision to have his company stop protecting The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. He decided to stop working with The Daily Stormer after its team suggested that Cloudflare sympathized with its Nazi ideology. The Daily Stormer’s site was taken down by attackers as soon […]
