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We routinely block nations where we have no customers from some assets, because why would they be there other than doorknob rattling hoping for some security is
by kjs3 2y ago
We routinely block nations where we have no customers from some assets, because why would they be there other than doorknob rattling hoping for some security issue. "No customers" is now racism? If we block people from the UK because of their burdensome Online Safety Act, we're racist? If we blocked Russian or Chinese IP addresses because their government doesn't want their citizens data stored on our infrastructure, it's because we're racists?
Apparently the definition of 'racism' has grown wildly in certain quarters.
One could suppose that's just due to some misconfiguration
Sure...but so much easier to assume they're a racist I guess.
- imcritic 2y agoI don't know you, so I don't care about your services, block whomever you want. Rachel has a weblog, she writes articles, I used to come to her blog to read them, I am not a customer of any of her services. Now that she blocks users by their origin - I see she has no problems with being discriminatory. That's a shame, I thought of her a bit higher than that.
- kjs3 2y agoI read her blog as well. Please point exactly to where she says "I block this user/IP address/netblock/AS #/etc. because of the ethnicity of the user".
- imcritic 2y agoThat would expose her to the others, so obviously she doesn't manifest her blocks to everyone, she just configures her servers to drop packets received from specific origins. It used to work directly and now it doesn't. It works via foreign proxy/VPN, but I'll just stop visiting her site from now until she stops with her racism.
- kjs3 2y agoSo you have absolutely no proof this is racism, and calling it racism is just your petulant response to something you don't like. Got it.
- imcritic 2y agoHow is that not racism if it's discrimination by origin of requests? I bet money she doesn't block requests by such a wide filter if the origin is USA.