Or, you know, we could operate with an ounce of nuance and not oversimplify the complexities of the world we live in.
Accordingly, most US-based companies are not in a position for bulk data collection and assisting the totalitarian surveillance state.
Cloudflare, however, is, and does. They are not a trustworthy party here, no more so than Flock itself.
Why? Because, for many, it's a technical necessity to protect sites from the dark forest of the web (i.e., assholes.)
You can cast aspersions on the implications of that in conjunction with US intelligence access, but you're painting a completely fabricated picture of reality that borders on delusional.