Prince said while CloudFlare had been contacted by government law enforcement officials about LulzSec, they had very little information to provide. All that is needed to sign up for free CloudFlare services is an email address, a username and a password.
At no time did law enforcement ask CloudFlare to discontinue providing services to LulzSec.
"It would have been an interesting question if they had," said Prince.
Prince and colleagues suffered what he called an existential crisis many times during the experience.
"We thought: Is this who we want to have on our network?" said Prince. But, ultimately, the company felt they were not in a position to play censor.
CloudFlare will not allow sites that distribute malware, conduct phishing or host child pornography to use their services. But beyond that, Prince said he feels just about any site deserves to be served.
"I'm not sure it's my role to decide what should be on the internet."