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Cloudflare is being surprisingly tactful regarding the apparent inaction from law enforcement. The legal and judicial systems clearly lack effective measures to
by gary_0 4y ago
Cloudflare is being surprisingly tactful regarding the apparent inaction from law enforcement. The legal and judicial systems clearly lack effective measures to ensure physical safety from these kinds of digital threats -- they're about 20 years behind at this point, and lawmakers and judges are 30 years too old.
I don't blame Cloudflare for being reluctant to play judge, jury, and executioner, even though they would probably see short-term profit from doing so.
One thing I find peculiar: we don't see the same lack of will when it comes to policing copyright online. KF gets away with literal murder, but share so much as a fragment of a song or movie and you get nuked from orbit.
- rnd0 4y agoThey don't lack measures, they lack motivation. They are not inclined to to protect any kind of marginalized community. Never have been, and they never will be. Protecting copyright reinforces the system -the status quo. There's a financial motive, there's a social motive. That's why you see a lot more action on that front. Protecting the marginalized is against the interest of far-right aligned groups (many, many, many law enforcement people happen to be far right, as do many in the judiciary, and FBI) -they see the silencing of "freaks" and LGBT people as being a Good Thing. Therefore Law Enforcement is anti-motivated, and the time (AND MONEY) that they spend on cases they don't care about to begin with is TIME AND MONEY taken away from persuing things like...policing copyright, or engaging in civil forfeiture or other profit-driven activities. It isn't peculiar when you think it through. Disgusting and absolutely depressing -yes. But not peculiar. It makes perfect sense from their point of view.