To the people upset with CloudFlare: please explain why it is better for random startups and multinational corporations to set and enforce policy, than for elected officials and governments and courts. Because that’s basically what you’re saying...
This will remain the case, because the impact of tech-interested voters to whom elected officials' support of this status quo matters is trivialized by the apathetic majority. Therefore, the tech community's only recourse is to pressure the middlemen, such as CloudFlare, who can interfere with this type of corporate action.
Lately, I'm not impressed with our government or the people who elected it. I think both groups -- meaning corrupt people in the first instance and stupid people in the second -- have far too much power over the rest of us.
Subversion and disobedience on the part of everyone from multinational corporations to individual Internet users may, unfortunately, be the only remaining way forward. I don't pretend that this state of affairs is good for society, but it is what it is.
They are saying CloudFlare should behave like a common carrier and NOT have any policy to begin with.
But Cloudflare already lost that privilege. And now the Common Carrier Chickens are coming home to roost.
Public transport is a common carrier in the US oil and gas pipelines are also common carriers they don’t ask the FCC to classify them as such.