[onetimeusename]

what you say makes sense and even I doubt that cloudflare will remain committed to being content neutral even if they want to be, a different issue. Government can get corporations to do what they want.

However, people continue to use cloudflare because it is easy, solves problems people don't like dealing with, and does the job. I don't know what the alternative pitch is to businesses so that cloudflare isn't so central to the internet.

[dirheist]

Yeah, also for cloudflares core business proposition (ddos mitigation and DNS forwarding/filtering) you need to be massive and to have multiple PoP's in order to assess whether or not a certain IP requesting a certain URL and sending over a certain length of packets should be accepted or whether a challenge should be served. You can't know any of these things unless you have an extensive network and clients.