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There is no ethical way to watch football. It's always funding a (or multiple) mafia-like organization. Authorities tried to work with that provider but it req
by cryptonym 6d ago
There is no ethical way to watch football. It's always funding a (or multiple) mafia-like organization.
Authorities tried to work with that provider but it required a process that doesn't scale to live events. They do not want to preemptively disallow abuses on their platform. If you leverage their shared IPs to expose your service, your traffic cannot be distinguished from abuses by traffic filtering solutions. I think they provide BYOIP, if you think your service is important enough to justify not being mixed with non-legit things. Or you can rework your architecture, this provider is not the full web.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like it and would vote against IP-filtering if I was asked that specific question. I don't consider it tyrannical. Criteria for blocking IPs is clear and limited, even if blocking IPs is dumb. VPN are allowed.
- trumpdong 6d agoOh no! They won't implement censorship without a court decision? How tragic!
- cryptonym 6d agoBlocking illegal football streaming is not censorship.
- trumpdong 6d agoOf course it's censorship. It's the government blocking certain content from the internet, without a trial. How do you define censorship?
- cryptonym 6d agoBy this logic removing CSAM also is censorship. This definition of censorship is valid but it doesn't convey much moral value. Removing some content, even without a trial, can be a good thing.