I am heartened to see a high default level of suspicion, bordering on contempt, for a global observer MITM'ing as much of the Internet as they can.
I'm not sure if Cloudflare is a malicious actor but we should all behave as if they are.
their size and the "man-in-the-middle"-ing is a huge problem. however, i dont think the solution is to encourage them to also start acting as content police.
i dont trust cloudflare, which is exactly why i dont want them policing my legal content. you want the "malicious actor" to exercise more control?
If I'm hosting anything I don't have to proactively police it. If someone alerts me that a certain domain I'm hosting points to something illegal, I then decide if I want to remove it or not (and don't decide this based on a shell script). Cloudflare is apparently just fine removing child porn when reported, so we know they are making an active decision in every case, and we can judge them based on their decisions.
neither of the pages that people want taken down are illegal.
Theres sentiment and content. If you claim something without evidence, you become another malicious actor.