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Totally. Good riddance.
That said, it does raise questions about who gets to decide (and on what grounds) who stays online. However, the actual problem with this is best exemplified by this little sentence from their previous blogpost (on how they are not going to block KW):
That's the underlying problem. If a website gets dropped by a provider that serves, say ~2% of the Internet, no biggie. If it gets dropped by 50 similar providers, well, clearly nobody wants to do business with you.
But if such decisions are made between a few huge providers, each handling a good 1/5th of global web traffic? Then yes, there is a bit of bad aftertaste. Which only allows the dweebs from KiwiFarms and such of this world to cry "censorship".
Sure, I never said there isn't, or that there should not be. I only said that this question is raised.
In an anarchist context this can be community consensus, I guess. In nation state context, this can be a government decision or a court order. And so on.
What I am trying to underscore here is that the fact that a company's decision to not do business with a particularly toxic customer should not be of such immense consequence. And the only reason it is is because of CloudFlare's position.
CloudFlare's position is a bigger problem than CloudFlare's policies.