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Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

but they could have. still could. and you might not even know. and the fact that one of our political teams has been fighting SO HARD against net neutrality is a big red flag. protections are important even if someone's not actively and noticeably abusing people right this minute.

There's been exactly zero problems in 20 years (the idea was introduced in 2003), yet somehow "still could. and you might not even know.". No one is fighting "so hard" this is a dead topic. T-Mobile offers to zero rate YouTube if you let them throttle it - it's your choice. Would that be legal under Net Nutrality? Would they have to get permission from YouTube?

This article feels like it was written directly as a reply to you:

https://www.freepress.net/blog/net-neutrality-violations-bri...

Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare

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The association of IPs to individuals and particular services is the original sin of the Internet. At Cloudflare, we’re working to fix that sin. That doesn’t mean governments don’t have the right to regulate content on networks in their boarders: they absolutely do so long as they follow principles of Rule of Law. But blocking on an IP can never be transparent — and therefore violates the Rule of Law — and will alway…

Is your vendetta against IPs the reason why you can't remember that my home IP that has not changed in 3 years is actually not a bot?
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