>I know plenty of people in tech that are adverse to the idea of government regulating tech, but at the same time do not believe it is right for the small segment of the population working in tech to decide what conversations we are and are not allowed to discuss
Government also are small segment of the population, moreover politicians don't understand the topic.
Cloudflare and other tech pundits just want to be free from consequences of their decisions. If gov tell them to censor they would just say, its not us, its you country law.
How is this bad?