In this case the court said to block illegal content, and here are the IP addresses where that content is served which should be blocked. It passes the sniff te

In this case the court said to block illegal content, and here are the IP addresses where that content is served which should be blocked. It passes the sniff test of the lawyers as not much different than blocking domains of piracy sites. They pass the requirement on through the engineering org, it eventually reaches an individual contributor who is tasked to make it a reality. Then that engineer looks at the specific IPs and realizes that some of them are cloudflare ips and the collateral damage of blocked content would be significant. Their job is to then escalate and pass it back to higher managers and the legal department to confirm they knew about that implication and want to move forward. The legal department at the isp having specialists means that they could understand this situation in a single email from the engineer, not that they obviously have the foresight or capability to even find out that some of the IPs might be for cloudflare. Or sometimes the lawyer might even assume that's not a big deal but higher managers can realize that it is a big deal and then discuss options. All that I mean is that even at FAANG companies with extensive and competent legal departments its not correct to just blindly execute a change like this if you think it looks wrong; it's not at all a safe assumption that what you know is somehow a subset of what they know.