perhaps a downvote on that came from lack of reference, I had assumed most here had read the 'recent developments' from cloudflare, but perhaps there are those who would downvote that have only read headlines. I was not aware of how much cloudflare had become a part of the survielance state until I read the recent post from the ceo there.

Here are a few quotes to substantiate my outrageous claim:

-- because we have a very effective technological solution that provides security, performance, and reliability in an affordable and easy-to-use way. As a result of that, a huge portion of the Internet now sits behind our network.

-- ...monitoring potential hate sites on our network and notifying law enforcement when there was content that contained...

-- We will continue to work within the legal process to share information...

This is edited merely to show proof of the statement about surveilance. I am intentional taking parts of it out of context that includes their 'reasoning' and all that. This statement from me is not about whether this is a good or bad thing they are doing or for which reasons they do or do not, should they are shouldn't they, or whatever.

I suggest reading more about their side of the story they posted: https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8cha...

and read discussions on other threads around HN and other places on the web about the good, bad, etc on the issue.

It saddens me greatly to have to make that above statement that was downvoted by the way - there was a time when I placed great faith in the ability of cloudflare to protect free speech from the Xchans and those who peruse them (4 chan was used at one time to coordinate LOIC DDoS attacks against sites I maintain and several hosting companies that tried to handle that. So I was relieved with cloudflare at one time in protecting data transit - now it's become another instrument in censorship at the direction of the few to affect the many sadly.

That faith has now been destroyed as they have chosen to take a different route and instead suriveil and silence at the whim of changing goalposts.