I'm not sure that I agree with the author's stance that Cloudflare is more infrastructure than content platform. Cloudflare is part CDN and part security servic

I'm not sure that I agree with the author's stance that Cloudflare is more infrastructure than content platform. Cloudflare is part CDN and part security service. While both are useful in facilitating the distribution of content, the services that Cloudflare provides are not necessary to that distribution in the same way that access to the internet via an ISP is. Whatever the controller of some botnet's likely course of action is in response to the distribution of content they don't like, it doesn't change the fact that Cloudflare is merely providing a content distribution service, a service that publishers could go elsewhere to obtain or even build for themselves.