>>I'm only talking about CloudFlare's ability to abuse its position. Yes, I felt an eyebrow raise a bit when I read about Cloudflare getting the site taken dow

>>I'm only talking about CloudFlare's ability to abuse its position. Yes, I felt an eyebrow raise a bit when I read about Cloudflare getting the site taken down. It is a minor super-power. That said, any power can be abused, but that does not mean that it will be abused, or that the potential for abuse means that we should eliminate that power. In the case of CloudFlare, they so far seem like a responsible infrastructure provider, with a business model that aligns their incentives with being trustworthy, so I'm OK with it. In contrast, I wouldn't even consider trusting any Meta/FB org with anything like this power, as their obvious behavior has been massively untrustworthy, and their business model makes it easiest to be untrustworthy. The question is whether we are at risk of such power being extended beyond ICANN Cloudflare, etc. and to the likes of untrustworthy players like Meta, Alphabet, etc., and if so, what to do about it?