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Haha exactly, you joke but... If you want a society where it's even possible to take down "low-hanging" content, and where physical enforcement of that takedow
by mattbee 5y ago
Haha exactly, you joke but...
If you want a society where it's even possible to take down "low-hanging" content, and where physical enforcement of that takedown might span international boundaries, the legal goalposts sometimes need to move.
And I feel like if we don't help move the technical and legal goalposts in a sympathetic manner - like recognising that a caching edge proxy is part of a site's hosting setup - we end up being part of the problem & pushing governments into more draconian solutions.
(I'm not sure why the litigants in this case were targeting Cloudflare, but I assumed because they have no other idea who is hosting these infringing sites)
So e.g. what does a legislature do if internet architecture has completely hardened towards privacy, such that edge proxies, whois, Facebook or whoever don't allow some visbility into the ultimate owner/publisher of a piece of content? They legislate what they can touch - the manufacture of the devices in our hands and on our laps, or the configuration of the access networks we all have to use.
- account42 5y ago> So e.g. what does a legislature do if internet architecture has completely hardened towards privacy, such that edge proxies, whois, Facebook or whoever don't allow some visbility into the ultimate owner/publisher of a piece of content? Accept that restricting the flow of information is a stupid idea.
- robertlagrant 5y agoIt might be pretty sensible from the government's perspective, though. De jure freedom of speech, but de facto not.