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If by "just fine" you mean "anyone with a botnet can take down your website (or, if small enough, country) at will". Thus we have CloudFlare et al.

• BobbyJo 5y ago
  My point was: I see no reason why we couldn't accomplish everything Cloudflare does without a central authority. Markets are able to solve just about any problem without any central person pulling the strings. Case in point: the internet.
  • edmundsauto 5y ago
    Is the internet a good example of free markets and capitalism? I always perceived the glory days as more akin to communism.
    • simonh 5y ago
      There’s nothing about capitalism that prevents, or is anathema to companies, organisations or individuals from collaborating or pooling resources. Communism is a specific political and economic system with explicit and deliberately coercive communalising policies. It doesn’t have a monopoly on community forming or coordinated community action or the pooling of community resources though.
  • simonh 5y ago
    As has been pointed out there are alternatives to cloud flare so it’s not a central authority.
  • stickfigure 5y ago
    This is such a weird statement. I totally agree that markets can solve this problem. They brought us CloudFlare! (and a few other companies that offer similar services) Sadly, all of them appear to require Big Internet Infrastructure. This isn't a problem you're going to solve at the wifi level.
    • BobbyJo 5y ago
      I'm speaking specifically against the statement that Cloudflare, acting as a central authority, can solve problems that cannot be solved without a central authority.