The only reason this happens is because Cloudflare's centralization makes precise censorship impossible. That's bad in this particular case (as it results in over-broad censorship), but good in general, as it makes censorship harder.

Without Cloudflare, you can censor whatever you want. If you have the support of an (undemocratic) government on your side, you can even DeDoS them, making sure that information critical of you cannot see the light of day.

That's actually an interesting argument for centralization, when it comes to interoperability concerns. I have never thought about it.

Of course, the standard response against centralization is that the centralized entity can sneak backdoors and turn at the drop of a hat.

Maybe something like a signal-like model might be good, in that regard, as opposed to mesh networks.