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dijityesterday at 7:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

Limit their upstream connection to the rest of the internet via allied countries.

Literally the same as economic sanctions. The internet is a network of peers “trading” bits and bytes after all.


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m00xyesterday at 7:35 PM

This won't do anything. The attacks are not from the offending countries they're from botnets of compromised devices.

North Korea doesn't care if you limit their internet they already allow people to go outside their own.

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immibisyesterday at 7:46 PM

America already limits its upstream to China and Russia through a private companies such as Cloudflare and Spamhaus. It's often the case that for Chinese users seeking to escape censorship, once they've worked their way through the Chinese Great Firewall, they find themselves in front of the American one.