Can you seriously see no space between hosting people advertising DDoS-for-hire services and arbitrarily censoring the Internet? Is this what passes as civil discourse these days?

That's especially rich considering that Cloudflare is the actor perhaps best known for blocking access to the Internet for people who seek privacy. Have you tried using Tor during the past several years? Or just a lesser popular web browser?

Look, it's very simple. When any one of your customers is exactly the criminal you sell protection against, you drop them, otherwise you are aiding and abiding. Perhaps not exactly in the sense of the law, if you have expensive enough lawyers, but in practice.

The current state of affairs is that cloudflare is that huge organization that arbitrarily censors websites without a mechanism for appeal or legal process.

Cloudflare actively removes your ability to decide for yourself which websites and systems you want to connect to by obscuring their sources.

Without Cloudflare I could decide for myself that I want to block certain networks to connect to my networks.

Cloudflare hiding the origin of these networks along with it's size in the market make Cloudflare exactly that huge organization.