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This is going to play into the hands of authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. They will simply block Google.
by frozenport 10y ago
This is going to play into the hands of authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. They will simply block Google.
- contingencies 10y agoCouldn't agree more; no idea who is downvoting you, this is the most insightful comment here. Also, it's fucking hypocritical claiming to support 'net neutrality' while hand-picking sites to receive support of a massive private-fiber global conglomerate with very strong senior management political affiliations. Engineers with ethics at google should start a rebellion.
- Dylan16807 10y agoChina and Russia don't generally censor via DDOS. A reverse proxy that connects from the internet to the internet does not need to be neutral. Free hosting does not need to be neutral. Net neutrality is about packets getting between an end user and the core of the internet fairly. This service is in a different area entirely.
- contingencies 10y agoStraw man about DDoS, nobody asserted that here. As far as private fiber, global search traffic, cached pages, maps, mail and advertising goes, Google already is the core of the internet.
- ztl8702 10y agoIndeed, China is probably the place that needs this kind of "shield" the most. But Google is already blocked there. Ideally, we should use some kind of P2P network against censorship, but such networks aren't mature enough. BUT, if you consider the other way: China's attack on western sites, then this "shield" is valuable. I remember no long ago China uses GFW to inject malicious code in some analytics javascript. Then all of a sudden millions of internet users started ddosing Github. It was probably because someone put something Chinese gov didn't like on Github. Github for some reason is not banned in China , but China was using this kind of ddos to force Github to take down the pages it didn't like.