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There's a really bad equilibrium where every country (or at least every country big enough to have BigTech workers in their country) figures out they can global
by ls612 2y ago
There's a really bad equilibrium where every country (or at least every country big enough to have BigTech workers in their country) figures out they can globally censor the internet by using the assets and people of those companies as leverage. Then we would have Americans having their internet censored by every foreign power except China and Russia, where BigTech have largely left.
And it would all be done under the color of local law.
- jsnell 2y agoI see nothing in this article suggesting that the court order is for a global block, rather than a regional one. Do you have a source for that?
- ls612 2y agoDoes Cloudflare operate different 1.1.1.1s for each country?
- Volundr 2y agoIt's not required that they do so in order to implement a France only block. They just geolocate the requesting IP, and give different answers based on that. Same as Netflix or any other provider geo blocking there content, with the same workarounds. But also, in answer to your question, sort of, yes. 1.1.1.1 is any cast so that users will be routed to a server geographically near them. So then 1.1.1.1 a user gets in the US is quite literally a different one than a user in France will get.
- NilMostChill 2y agoThe venn diagram of people who are technically savvy enough to be able to alter their dns records and people who can and will use a VPN to work around an ip geolocation block is almost a single circle.
- paledot 2y agoGoogle tried to make that argument in first, but was unsuccessful.