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So the real problem here is the monopoly/oligopoly.

Usually, a monopolist has more restrictions in what it can do than a healthy market business. Should a monopolist be allowed to not serve a customer because of an ethics difference? (assuming the customer did nothing illegal)

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Situations like this will help drive a mindset that these and most all ISPs should be regulated as Utilities.

You are serious? A IP washing service is by no means a utility. Maybe we can talk about companies that receive a government granted monopoly; certainly we should talk about regulated Title II, but this article claiming that Cloudflair should not choose who they protect is asinine.

Anyone is free to try to go raise the money to create a technology company; just as any technology company should have the freedom of self-expression to not take customers outside of protected classes.

The author of the article makes a point about how it's everyone's right to go onto the street and voice your opinion. But if you'll be attacked and silenced any time you do that, so long as you don't hire the local protection, do you still have that right to free speech if the local protection doesn't like you?

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