>Cloudflare is a gatekeeper because they’re trying to insert themselves between the owner and the end-user

But they can't insert themselves without the owner directly adding them. So it's the owner that's doing the gatekeeping(regardless if it's Cloudflare or iptables rules)

I think all you AI people blaming Cloudflare are just trying to deflect from the actual problem which is more and more owners don't want AI crawlers going through their content.

If Cloudflare dissapears who are you going to blame next, the iptables developers, maybe Linus Torvalds?