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What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This ...
- pseudolus 2y agoSeemingly related post "Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42603292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42603292
- eterm 2y agoUK person invokes US law to get at other UK person, because a link in the chain is in the US. As with DMCA laws, this is a big problem, as it gives the US tremendous power it shouldn't rightfully have. It's hard to know how to unwind this problem, the big platforms are too big, it's not realistic to find UK alternatives for things like cloudflare or Youtube.
- onetokeoverthe 2y agohost offshore or pay the piper.
- Havoc 2y agoI'd prefer to avoid the US entirely if I could help it, but that's pretty hard to pull off in today's tech word.
- viraptor 2y agoNice selective reactions. An ex politician complains about defamation and CF jumps to action. But when a random guy complains about repeated harassment, deaths threats and swating, CF mobilised lawyers to convince the court they're "just a proxy" and can't do anything about it. Amazing work, Prince and others.