That issue was definitely a free speech problem, however, not nearly as threatening to free speech as net neutrality. Websites can move to other hosting providers or even self-host in your own garage. Without NN, an ISP can completely cut off access to many, many sites very easily. Furthermore, there are very few ISPs in the USA with consolidated power as opposed to many web hosts in the world.

Not justifying CloudFlare's decision at all, just saying that I view dismantling NN as a much bigger threat.