@Charlamagne @chudbere @graf @josh @Moon You are correct but you are about a decade late to your "Roma locuta est."
The mistake was asking. Either they can stop you by turning it off, or they can't. "They wouldn't dare" went out the window on 9/11 and the window was welded shut two presidents ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point .
So people ask to get the Cloudflare turned back on, "Please keep providing us service!", people ask to get peering agreements restored, "Please keep providing us service!", people ask for the registrars and ICANN to stop fucking them, "Please keep providing us service!" There is no more expensive currency than pleas. If you need to ask, you're fucked, irreparably.
Attempts to get Zayo to turn peering back on are doomed. Finding another peer is a doomed endeavor. Anyone that understands the net and has both hands on the keyboard instead of alternating the thumb up their ass has been on that bus since way before Snowden. And that's where I'm fucked up about Snowden: everyone said "That should be illegal!" and it already was illegal, "Punish those big tech companies!" and the government isn't gonna execute their own snitches. Snowden was no surprise to any hacker, or anyone who remembers the important shit instead of running around chasing the new batch of rabbits every time the president or some congressman dumps a new bag of them on the floor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance , or if you wanna go farther back, remember when Windows was shipping with an NSA backdoor that they were dumb enough to call "NSAKEY"? Shit, the IME backdoor was just found a couple of years ago. My mistake was thinking that exposing all of those "secrets" would have shifted public opinion away from centralization: instead people said "WELL MAKE THEM PROMISE TO STOP DOING IT AGAIN, THIS TIME IT'LL WORK". Zero arrests for any of this except that they have attempted to arrest Snowden and have been working for years to get Assange.
Google didn't take off until Eric Schmidt joined up. Schmidt is in bed with the government (
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ ), the same government that was doing Operation Choke Point before. And you have there Hillary Clinton, whose husband's presidency was responsible for the illegalization of cryptography and the Clipper chip. Eric Schmidt now has a post at the Pentagon, created specifically for him, as head of the Defense Innovation Advisory Board (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Innovation_Advisory_Board ,
http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/684366/pentagon-to-establish-defense-innovation-advisory-board ). Google took off because of the government, and now they're close enough to a monopoly that it makes no difference and half the people in this thread are using Android phones and Chrome. Great work, guys, we're really knocking it out the fuckin' park. I can't wait for the next time someone on fedi tells me to use fluoridated tech and I refuse and they call me a tinfoil boomer, then minutes later they post some Uncle Ted memes. Remember that photo of Zuckerberg and the thing that jumped out at people was that he had tape over his laptop's camera? (So many goddamn idiots around here that I'm nearly certain that I type "Zuckerberg tapes his camera" and the first thing they think is "ZUCKERBERG JEW! TAKE ALL THE TAPE OFF THE CAMERAS" instead of "Zuckerberg knows something we don't.")
Stop asking for permission to continue existing and get hacking.