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It's all fun and freedom fighting games until countries start blocking legitimate IPs and disrupting the interwebs: https://gizmodo.com/russia-blocks-millions-o

• Shank 9y ago
  That’s the whole point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
• kodablah 9y ago
  That's the point, to keep governments from picking their preferred version of the internet. If this is the reason for Google disallowing the google.com front door to AppEngine or whatever, then Google is hypocritical because they support DNS-over-HTTPS for similar reasons. Guess if I started using a bunch of low-TTL TXT records to chat with they would stop that service too, heh.
• notyourday 9y ago
  That's because all major Western internet companies are just virtue signalers for the wine drinking, cheese munching western population that loves to pontificate on the topics of "freedom". Every single time a country with a reasonably large market told Google/Apple/Facebook/etc "Jump" these companies asked "How high would you like us to jump?" rather than respond with force - Google can respond to Russia with a single "OK, lets see" and block all Russian IP addresses from accessing/using any and all Google resources. Such action would create the kind of pressure on the Russian government it would within days change its decision -- it is not that the top of the Russian society does not rely on services provided by Google in a day to day life. It is that top that matters. Leaning on them creates leverage. Compromising one's principals allows competitors to exploit one's weak principals.