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It's worth noting that CloudFlare has already proven itself to not be a neutral party - they have proven willing to take sites offline for both legal and social pressure reasons.

This will greatly impact the internet's ability to route around censorship as if it were damage.




I agree, only somewhere that hosts neo-nazi websites would be trustworthy enough for this. /s


Cloudflare has proven willing to refuse to use their own bandwidth to host particular websites. That's very different from censoring DNS requests, and there's no reason to think they would do the latter.




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