[calimac]

Cloudflare scaled up massively so quickly when they started offering cdns a decade ago.

I judged the company in a negative light when their ceo or cfo wrote an open letter rationalizing their ban silencing some obnoxious website over political belief virtue signaling.

A company that crushes free speech cannot be trusted.

I don’t even remember what the obnoxious or offensive website was but I know that offensive speech is protected speech.

Autocratic technocracy centralized into a few digital monopolies wrap our wrists into digital slave chains labeled “free”.

[mperham]

The first amendment applies to government censorship only.

Cloudflare is not the government. A business can choose not to service someone based on almost any criteria, that's not "crushing free speech". You can then choose not to patronize the business based on that policy. This is an important part of a free market.