‘CloudFlare’ have been accused of assisting ISIS by Anonymous. The secretive online group swore to wage a war on ISIS in the wake of the Paris attacks. They have already managed to close down thousands of twitter accounts that were spewing out ISIS propaganda but now there attention has focused in on this U.S. firm.

Anonymous’s message to ISIS in the wake of the Paris attacks

According to Anonymous, CloudFlare have been helping ISIS improve their online security. The company has over four million customers worldwide, they bolster websites speed and protect them from cyber attacks. The services they provide are stopping Anonymous closing down these pro ISIS sites.

They took to twitter to show their frustration and call on CloudFlare to remove the protection:

 Matthew Prince, CloudFlare’s cofounder told The Register:

“I’d suggest this was armchair analysis by kids – it’s hard to take seriously. Anonymous uses us for some of its sites, despite pressure from some quarters for us to take Anonymous sites offline.”

He insisted that his company had nothing to hide and if the state department or federal authorities got in contact they would be happy to co-operate.

“Even if we were hosting sites for ISIS, it wouldn’t be of any use to us. I should imagine those kinds of people pay with stolen credit cards and so that’s a negative for us.”

 This isn’t the first time the company has run into hot water. Back in 2013 CloudFlare were accused of helping to support an Al Qaeda affiliated website. With 4,000,000 customers it is inevitable that some of the people you deal with are going to be corrupt. But it’s essential that this type of company do not assist terrorists. CloudFlare need to take the accusations seriously and investigate whether there are grounds to Anonymous’s claims.

In a blog post, Prince said they were “protecting free speech.”

“A website is speech. It is not a bomb. 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.”

CloudFlare is worth more than $1 billion, Bloomberg reported in March, and expects to go public in 2017.