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It should be entirely up to the ISP. Consequently, the ISP's customers can judge (with their spending) whether they approve of such blocking.

• chipperyman573 11y ago
  No they can't, at least not in America.
  • erkkie 11y ago
    Actually they could, but they would lose their common carrier (see a sibling comment) protections.
    • dragonwriter 11y ago
      To the extent that they are not prohibited from doing so, they would also not lose common carrier status if they did. The rules applied to ISPs under Title II -- the FCC's recent Open Internet Order -- do not prohibit blocking unlawful content, only lawful content.
• erkkie 11y ago
  Common carrier[0] as a concept exists for good reasons, while cloudflare is not technically required to act as one, it just makes perfect sense to not have to make a ambigious content based judgement call for each of your clients. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
• pki 11y ago
  In many many places, especially in the states there is no such thing as being able to judge with their spending because of monopolies.