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> Sorry citizen, google services are inaccessible because the only ISP in your city sold a service to a bad actor. > We might fix this, we might not, you DONT
by swarnie 3y ago
> Sorry citizen, google services are inaccessible because the only ISP in your city sold a service to a bad actor.
> We might fix this, we might not, you DONT have a choice.
> Thank you for your continued business.
- phone8675309 3y agoIndistinguishable from the kind of service I get from Google - the moment that I need a human involved I just close my account with whatever Google service is misbehaving and move on.
- swarnie 3y agoBut you have other options which is my point. (swap in any corpo-service provider you personally like the most) Blanket banning subnet ranges from services because of the actions of someone else is 3rd world shit.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoHacker News nerds will argue all day long that the Internet is a utility when the argument happens to personally benefit them, then in the same breath say that a random network admin is justified in blocking a whole ISP subnet due to one “bad” actor. And of course by bad actor I mean person that almost certainly accidentally got themselves infected with malware by not understanding the completely Byzantine world of computers and the Internet.
- grotorea 3y agoWell, if someone had somehow gotten their house wires damaged in a way that causes brownouts to neighbours, wouldn't the electric company be justified in cutting off the house?