Cloudflare’s Kiwi Farms Support May Soon Hurt Its Bottom Line

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At what point should a cloud services provider assume responsibility for the actions of its users? In the U.S., internet service providers are protected under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) from liability that may occur from their users’ online statements.

Cloudflare offers both caching and denial-of-service prevention services to Kiwi.

And, as Fong-Jones has pointed out, there is no government mandate that everyone must have access to a caching service.

In particular, it was too easy for users to apply a broader set of access rights than intended, leading to security issues.

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