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blibblelast Friday at 6:15 PM1 replyview on HN

USian tech-CEO posting petulant self-serving arguments about "FREEDOM" on twitter? what a cliche

cloudflare have deliberately designed their network so that every IP can serve up every cloudflare website

this means a court order can't block a single cloudflare site without blocking every cloudflare site, causing massive collateral damage

I suspect this is a deliberate business decision: an attempt to raise the "cost" of blocking so high that courts won't attempt to do it at all

and then they make arguments about "it's not technically possible", when it is (farm the target of the orders off to a separate pool of IPs)

and for DNS they could apply a filter based on the source IP country of origin

Prince: please, please, please exercise your empty threat, and withdraw your shitty company's services from Italy

and then you'll watch as Italy then raises it at the EU level, and then you'll have to do the same there too


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great_wubwublast Friday at 6:57 PM

> this means a court order can't block a single cloudflare site without blocking every cloudflare site

Not true. Cloudflare can't block only a single web site _by IP address_ but that's pretty common with IPv4, The same is true of Fastly and AWS and I'd be shocked if there's a mass-market CDN out there that has a unique IPv4 address per customer.

They can absolutely block any site they want at the application layer (SNI or Host header or whatever they use, IDK, I'm a network guy).

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