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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: 0s | 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. slt2021 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44573322[source]▶
botnets are usually coming from residential networks due to infected hosts/IoT devices.

if cloudflare were to host malware on their own IPs, it would have been trivial to see CF's steps.

Unless you want to suggest that CF is developing and distributing sophisticated malware and making botnets across the world

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2. chickenzzzzu ◴[15 Jul 25 18:17 UTC] No.44574232[source]▶
Though certain mafia economics would suggest exactly that, I personally am not suggesting it. It's just an extremely interesting possibility that could only be proven with evidence.