Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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.

> 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.

I have to do that using corporate and residential US networks, simply because I use Firefox.

As great as Cloudflares services might be to each individual user, the centralization of infrastructure, and by extension the centralization of power, doesn’t seem to be worth it at a macro level. The tragedy of the commons strikes again.