[yosamino]

That's not a "weird belief". Cloudflare positions itself as "infrastructure". That means they think they are not responsible for the content that they carry.

In a normal scenario, if you want to protect your systems from other "bad" systems on the internet, you can block them on the IP layer.

But Cloudflare operates at the IP layer proxying data between you and good and bad (and everything in between) systems.

In a normal situation you could block and report a site that is run by the the mob, by either blocking them at the IP level or by contacting the abuse@ of the organization that is hosting the content.

Cloudflare is making it so that you can't do either. And if you send an abuse report to Cloudflare, you cannot be sure that they will not just forward your contact information directly to the entity that you are complaining about. They have changed their stance over the years to appear more responsible, but the fact remains:

If I want to send an abuse@ report to a system that is hidden behind Cloudflare I can not be sure that they won't just forward it without me knowing who they are forwarding it to.

[iamnothere]

This is a good thing. You shouldn’t be able to get a Discord full of “activists” with personality disorders to spam someone’s host with false abuse reports and threaten them until the host boots them out of sheer annoyance.