It feels off that Linode is being targetted so intensely and one feels bad for them but this can destroy their business. It will be a pity if the barriers to e

It feels off that Linode is being targetted so intensely and one feels bad for them but this can destroy their business. It will be a pity if the barriers to entry are being constantly raised by the need for more and more mitigation and this will reflect in the level of expertise needed and prices for end consumers, and even then with the constant threat of blackouts. It also becomes easy to silence inconvenient voices. It is difficult to run a business or website if you need to constantly fight extortionists or make payoffs to address threats of downtime. Today Linode is in the news, tomorrow it could be anyone else targetted. There is no easy solution here, without putting constraints somewhere but there must be a way to make the web more resilient and robust and not subject to the whims of extortionists and other malicious agents.