> TBH, services like Cloudflare should be free to operate as they please. A publisher is simply not entitled to a CDN

If a CDN is necessary to support the site being a public platform that's not a given. This whole "A private company should be able to act like it pleases" that Cloudflare mirrors in their news is an ideological standpoint, not an absolute truth. It's certainly possible to see it differently: If a company becomes a public platform important for the public discourse or for the function of journalism, regulation and laws can limit what a company can do. Like Germany does with Facebook.

Edit: Thinking about this a bit more, I'm really frustrated with Cloudflare about this. With the announcement they are causing the political discourse after the massacre to be about free speech, while the one thing important here is gun control. This stuff happens in the US because the easy access to guns allows murderers to act like this. It does not matter whether 8chan falls now or whether it survives or whether the US limits their extreme stance on free speech as long the US society continues to accept that those massacres happen in favor of having guns available to everyone.

In some parts of Europe water and electricity are considered rights, and you cannot cut off service to a home under normal circumstances.

see e.g. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/deeper-and-fairer...

> This actually happens in Europe, typically when authorities decide squatters should not be tolerated.

How often does that happen in countries where squatting itself is not illegal?

That's a false equivocation. Squatters and offensive people are not the same.

Sure, they are free to operate as they please. And people are free to dislike the way they operate.