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toxik ◴[] No.27415754[source]
Chinese originated spam and abuse is so outrageously widespread, I don’t understand why there isn’t a conversation going on about cutting them off from the wider internet. They blocked most of it anyway.
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1. liveoneggs ◴[] No.27417395[source]
15+ or so years ago I worked in the NOC of the 3rd or so largest ISP in the US and a random network engineer did this one evening. We got a big influx of customers complaining about email not working to their family, etc, until I finally figured it out.

That network guy (classic long hair "security" guy) was a lazy asshole for doing it then and the internet needs to have the technology to deal with bad actors beyond AS/geo-level blocking now.