Comment by alibarber

It's not hard to understand why though surely?

You might have to show a passport when you enter France, and have your baggage and person (intrusively) scanned if you fly there, for much the same reason.

People, some of them in positions of government in some nation states want to cause harm to the services of other states. Cloudflare was probably the easiest tradeoff for balancing security of the service with accessibility and cost to the French/Parisian taxpayer.

Not that I'm happy about any of this, but I can understand it.