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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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chickenzzzzu ◴[15 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44572217[source]▶
Classic mafia racket economics would claim that Cloudflare themselves created the botnet ddos problem so that they themselves could solve it, and now they have the power to do this, especially when governments ask them very sternly to do so.
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1. pixl97 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:34 UTC] No.44572241[source]▶
Being that botnet DDOS existed before CF that's a pretty strong statement.
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2. a2128 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:04 UTC] No.44573391[source]▶
They existed before, but websites selling DDoS as a service were easier to track down and competitors would DDoS eachother. Cloudflare provided a strong layer of protection for everyone, including these DDoS websites, and took no action to take them down when reported