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> I do feel like the only way this request was granted was due to total ignorance on the part of the court of anything about how the internet works. It sounds

> I do feel like the only way this request was granted was due to total ignorance on the part of the court of anything about how the internet works. It sounds like the court, unlike you, has the power to make the internet work the way it thinks it does, and is thereby right about how it works.

jdong 4y ago
It's not like Microsoft just convinced a single judge about this either. https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-russia-fancy-bear/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-r... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/microsoft-seizes-domains-used-by-highly-sophisticated-hackers-in-china/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/micro... https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/132002/apt/microsoft-seized-bohrium-apt-domains.html https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/132002/apt/microsoft-se... https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2022/11/22/ms-digital-defense.aspx https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2022/11/22/ms-digi... https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/07/microsoft-domains-covid-19-attacks/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/07/microsoft-domains-covid-19... https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-seized-network-50-domains-hacker-group-ties-north-korea/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-seized-network-50-do... https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-imitatingright-wing-groups-controlled-by-kremlin-hackers/ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-... https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-taking-new-steps-against-broadening-threats-to-democracy/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-... Since 2010 Microsoft alone has seized over 16k individual domain names in more than 24 court cases. Microsoft is not alone in this, https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/1_Complaint.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/doc... https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022.02.08-Dkt.-1-Meta-Complaint.pdf https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022.02.08-D... You'd have to be deeply delusional to think that this is not how the internet works, as this very clearly is exactly how the internet works.

jdong 4y ago

It's not like Microsoft just convinced a single judge about this either. https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-russia-fancy-bear/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-r... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/microsoft-seizes-domains-used-by-highly-sophisticated-hackers-in-china/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/micro... https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/132002/apt/microsoft-seized-bohrium-apt-domains.html https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/132002/apt/microsoft-se... https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2022/11/22/ms-digital-defense.aspx https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2022/11/22/ms-digi... https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/07/microsoft-domains-covid-19-attacks/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/07/microsoft-domains-covid-19... https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-seized-network-50-domains-hacker-group-ties-north-korea/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-seized-network-50-do... https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-imitatingright-wing-groups-controlled-by-kremlin-hackers/ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/microsoft-seizes-domains-... https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-taking-new-steps-against-broadening-threats-to-democracy/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-... Since 2010 Microsoft alone has seized over 16k individual domain names in more than 24 court cases. Microsoft is not alone in this, https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/1_Complaint.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/doc... https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022.02.08-Dkt.-1-Meta-Complaint.pdf https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022.02.08-D... You'd have to be deeply delusional to think that this is not how the internet works, as this very clearly is exactly how the internet works.