And that’s what he was getting at: if TDS hadn’t put words in Cloudflare’s mouth and kept paying their bills on time, there’s little doubt Cloudflare would have ever removed them as a customer.

Cloudflare’s consistent response to accusations it defends illicit or harmful content has been some variation of “they’re paying customers and it’s not our place to judge their content”. Which, sure, noble hill to die on and all that jazz, but also something of a cowardly defense for speech whose sole purpose is creating harm.

That was sort of the PR spin they put on it. If Cloudflare was drawing an ideological line in the sand, they might have discussed where that line is lest others cross it. Instead, the post talks about when they do and don't comply with law enforcement and pleads with government not to try and force them to take other websites down. Posts on Stormfront were under immense legal scrutiny and the praising of Cloudflare brings that eye on them. Reading between the lines it's very obvious that legal made the decision. GP was discussing the larger pattern, and the larger pattern is one of inaction until there's little choice left legally speaking.