That's fair, it would be very easy and appropriate for someone to monitor HN for example.
I don't think the worry is that Cloudflare is helping police public websites, it's that they have the ability to police private ones that use their services. Their stance of proactively helping to police sites (instead of merely responding to warrants) makes the slope they are on very slippery. Would they be willing to decrypt traffic from a certain IP address to a private site if that same IP was used to post something violent on 8chan? Is that acceptable? Those are tough questions for sure, and ones best decided by a judge and not someone in the private sector.
Not only that but it looks more like they intend to actively monitor traffic in real time to check for things that are problematic according to them and their friends. And people need to realize this is not just for https traffic but also Ipfs and Wireguard. I'm sure it won't stop there either. Defeats the whole point of those technologies to have Cloudflare spying in the middle. This is China 2.0.
I don't think the worry is that Cloudflare is helping police public websites, it's that they have the ability to police private ones that use their services. Their stance of proactively helping to police sites (instead of merely responding to warrants) makes the slope they are on very slippery. Would they be willing to decrypt traffic from a certain IP address to a private site if that same IP was used to post something violent on 8chan? Is that acceptable? Those are tough questions for sure, and ones best decided by a judge and not someone in the private sector.