Cloudflare's abuse policies & approach
August 31, 2022 2:00PM
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides...
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What Cloudflare is doing to keep the Open Internet flowing into Russia and keep attacks from getting out
April 03, 2022 2:28AM
Ukraine
Russia
Freedom of Speech
Legal
Following Russia’s unjustified and tragic invasion of Ukraine in late February, the world has watched closely as Russian troops attempted to advance across Ukraine, only to be resisted and repelled by the Ukrainian people...
Terminating Service for 8Chan
August 05, 2019 2:44AM
Freedom of Speech
Legal
Community
The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting, the suspected terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by the forum website known as 8chan....
Project Galileo: the view from the front lines
June 14, 2019 2:00PM
Project Galileo
Legal
Freedom of Speech
Nonprofit
Growing up in the age of technology has made it too easy for me to take the presence of the Internet for granted. It’s hard to imagine not being able to go online and connect with anyone in the world....
Project Galileo: Lessons from 5 years of protecting the most vulnerable online
June 12, 2019 2:00PM
Project Galileo
Legal
Freedom of Speech
Nonprofit
Today is the 5th anniversary of Cloudflare's Project Galileo. Through the Project, Cloudflare protects—at no cost—nearly 600 organizations around the world engaged in some of the most politically and artistically important work online....
February 27, 2019 1:00PM
Out of the Clouds and into the weeds: Cloudflare’s approach to abuse in new products
In a blogpost yesterday, we addressed the principles we rely upon when faced with numerous and various requests to address the content of websites that use our services....