I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
I'm sure you could come up with at least few ideas why it hasn't happened
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#22/sarcasm Another ai crawler...
Anthropic agent went a little haywire on the tool use
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#25I don’t mean to cast any doubt, but are those short articles the standard, or why was there almost no data provided?
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#26I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
How would you even enforce this if the offending country doesn't agree?
Limit their upstream connection to the rest of the internet via allied countries.
Literally the same as economic sanctions. The internet is a network of peers “trading” bits and bytes after all.
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#27I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
America gonna allow someone else to regulate them?
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#28We should make residential proxies illegal
Making them illegal seems far-fetched, but at this point something like email blacklists but for web services is becoming inevitable.
At the moment, that's what Cloudflare is doing. They're just not obvious enough, leading to people on forums (and here) asking "why do I constantly need to fill out captchas to enter websites".
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#29Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructure...
Switched above. Thanks!
FWIW I think this is a bad practice.
The Microsoft article reads like a corporate press release. The original link contained additional pertinent information and research which is good for discussion.
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#30I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
Because it's not technicaly possible, I mean we're on HN, we all know how internet works.