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234 points gloxkiqcza | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | 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. v5v3 ◴[15 Jul 25 18:26 UTC] No.44574333[source]▶

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Classic NSA tactics would be to setup a giant American Man-In-The-Middle company that most of the traffic of the world passes through.

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2. chickenzzzzu ◴[15 Jul 25 20:29 UTC] No.44575487[source]▶

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And classic Washington Consensus tactics would be to manufacture a fake enemy to demonize in the media, such as Non-Western botnet makers

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