Enough with the conspiracy theories...
In the days before Cloudflare existed - indeed, very nearly the days before services like Cloudflare's existed, being as it was almost exacly the time Prolexic got off the ground - my site was DDoSed by an organised crime gang, and our ISP's 'help' was black-holing us entirely, on the grounds that the DDoS against us was taking down all the other clients in the datacentre. To be honest, I understood their decision then and I'd understand it again now.
So while on the one hand, obviously it's bad that Cloudflare did this, all the "oh noes, I had no idea a network provider could do such a thing!" hand wringing is a nonsense. At the end of the day, what else do you expect to happen? All the other customers to salute and go down on the ship with you?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
