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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.897s | source
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sunshine-o ◴[15 Jul 25 15:47 UTC] No.44572385[source]▶
I came to the realisation recently that the free Internet only happened (in the West) because:

- The Silent Generation, in charge at the time, had no idea what was this Internet thing about.

- The US Intelligence community understood it was a powerful tool to operate abroad.

- Nobody dared derailing the only engine of growth and progress in many economies

It obviously got out of control and is very abnormal in fact if you consider how power really works.

As of today, as a user of a reputable VPN, I am blocked from a lot essential websites or have to prove I am an human every 5 minutes, it sucks.

Anyway we are one major cyber disaster away for our the state to switch from a blacklist to whitelist paradigm. A safer and better Internet for everyone.

We will probably still have ways to access the "Free" Internet. It is gonna be fun, slower and might get you in serious troubles.

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1. Dracophoenix ◴[15 Jul 25 16:31 UTC] No.44572924[source]▶
You're forgetting that that the Internet was intertwined with the phone system at a time when the latter was the only reliable form of communication at both local and long-distance levels. Interference with the Internet would be interference with the international telephone system.
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2. int_19h ◴[15 Jul 25 16:41 UTC] No.44573089[source]▶
I don't see how the fact that dial-up was the norm for the internet "last mile" changes anything wrt the ability to block it. It would be done in exact same way it is done today - by forcing ISPs to do the blocking on internet protocol level.
3. 6510 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:06 UTC] No.44573415[source]▶
Thats a good idea, we could moderate the phone system.