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> By the way, regulating CloudFlare by limiting its ability to choose customers would be unconstitutional under the 1st amendment, would it not?

You're correct from a legal perspective, but Matthew Prince himself called it "dangerous" to do what they did. I think with good reason. While it's legally okay, it definitely raises valid questions, not about what's legal, but about what's right.

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If a bar has the right to not accept Nazi customers, and they have it, why not a service provider?

The danger is inherent to the kind of service you're using: a private company in the US

Not just a company in the US, but the right of any group of people who are not the government to freely associate in the US. Free association has implicit within it, the right of people to choose who they do not wish to associate.

Exactly right

My point is that especially if you are not from US, a service from a private company in a foregin country, cannot be considered a public utility.

If such a service don't want to support nazi propaganda is their right to shut it down.

I see no risk for everyone's freedom.

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