For those who don’t know, Cloudflare is by far, world’s most popular CDN or Content Delivery Service. A CDN is like Amazon Fulfillment Center, where instead of delivering your data to your clients directly from your home (i.e. server) you serve the super fast computers of Cloudflare and they do the task of delivering it to all over the world via their network.
Cloudflare is almost free for small websites, and it makes a HUGE improvement in the performance. Not to mention, if your website suddenly gets a huge exposure, then it will be able to serve all the traffic. Not to mention, it will protect your website from bot attacks (where some computers make same request to your website over and over, to prevent others from accessing it).
In 2017, Cloudflare deplatformed Stormfront, the infamous Neo-Nazi website. Cloudflare’s CEO wrote that he absolutely hated doing that, and hoped to never do it again. But once the other side got the taste of blood, they had to do it again, this time banning 8chan (Archive). This time too, they were very sad, but they had to do it (again). Although I do give it to them, they only blocked Stormfront and 8chan.
Either way the problem still remains, they provide excellent service, and though they censor some things, they at least on paper, devoted to free speech (and they still host Gab).
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cloudflare-and-its-free-speech-absolutist-ceo-matthew-prince-havent-quit-gab