So far Cloudflare appears to be acting in a non-destroying way. They take as content-neutral a stance as they can, and have had to defend lawsuits as a result o

So far Cloudflare appears to be acting in a non-destroying way. They take as content-neutral a stance as they can, and have had to defend lawsuits as a result of that stance. They recognize that the internet only functions and they can only be part of the infrastructure of the internet if they take that stance. The greater concern is this: Companies like Cloudflare should not be necessary. They often are. And, with today's internet architecture, companies like Cloudflare must operate at scale to be a useful service with pricing that people can afford. In a world where we accept the Cloudflare model, we also risk a set of gatekeepers emerging, and that set is "People who can manage terabits/second of inter-network connectivity at PoPs all over the world". It's potentially a troublingly small small group of entities.