[AdmiralAsshat]

Cloudflare isn't the company with too much power in the above scenario: La Liga is. CF isn't turning off access because they want to, it's because La Liga convinced a court that Cloudflare is promoting "piracy" with the various websites they host (some of which, constituting less than a rounding error of the overall sites they host, may host pirated soccer streams), and convinced a court to have Cloudflare blocked.

[dmix]

Technically LaLiga is only allowed to sue because the gov created aggressive IP/piracy rules, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Sinde

They were given those powers in court over Cloudflare via the Spanish government, with some help via a pressure campaign by US gov to protect US copyright globally.

[autoexec]

That said, Cloudflare absolutely has too much power. Centralizing the internet makes it fragile and maximizes the collateral damage caused by draconian copyright enforcement.

[MichaelZuo]

If there was a viable competitor, then it wouldn’t matter so much if it was blocked or not…

[M3L0NM4N]

The same IP rules would apply to anybody hosting any site that could have the pirated streams...

[Dylan16807]

That's a bad thing in this case. I don't want website blocking to be easier.

[amarant]

What makes you think the competitor wouldn't simply be blocked as well?

[MichaelZuo]

Because their policies, behavior, etc., likely wouldn’t be 100% identical.