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The association of IPs to individuals and particular services is the original sin of the Internet. At Cloudflare, we’re working to fix that sin. That doesn’t me
by eastdakota 3y ago
The association of IPs to individuals and particular services is the original sin of the Internet. At Cloudflare, we’re working to fix that sin. That doesn’t mean governments don’t have the right to regulate content on networks in their boarders: they absolutely do so long as they follow principles of Rule of Law. But blocking on an IP can never be transparent — and therefore violates the Rule of Law — and will always cause collateral damage. Terrific that the Austrian authorities recognized that.
- da768 3y agoCome on. Nothing regulates what we can reach on the Internet more than Turnstile/Great Firewall of Cloudflare abusing wrongful association of IPs.
- tbrownaw 3y ago> The association of IPs to individuals and particular services is the original sin of the Internet. At Cloudflare, we’re working to fix that sin. ... Being able to talk to someone without an intermediary is a problem? > That doesn’t mean governments don’t have the right to regulate content on networks in their boarders: they absolutely do so long as they follow principles of Rule of Law. Pretty sure governments have the right to do whatever they want regardless. It's that pesky "sovereignty" thing. > But blocking on an IP can never be transparent What do you mean by this?
- asddubs 3y agogive me a break. blocking with collateral damage is the cloudflare modus operandi
- vGPU 3y agoIsn’t it funny how quickly they went from “we won’t block for any reason” to where they are today? And the funny thing is that their blog post complains of the following: > In a deeply troubling response, after both terminations we saw a dramatic increase in authoritarian regimes attempting to have us terminate security services for human rights organizations — often citing the language from our own justification back to us. Well, yeah. That’s what happens. It’s just a lot easier to justify something you wanted to do already, isn’t it?
- benjymo 3y agoI wasn't able to npm install something because Cloudflare decided the IP I was currently assigned has to solve a captcha before downloading node packages.
- Bognar 3y agoIs your vendetta against IPs the reason why you can't remember that my home IP that has not changed in 3 years is actually not a bot?