alt Hacker NewsContext: last year LaLiga (top-level Spanish football league) obtained a court order compelling Spanish ISPs to block certain IPs during football matches, as those IPs have been associated with illegal streams of live matches. Many of those IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, with the result being many legitimate sites become unavailable in Spain during LaLiga matches
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Maybe someone can explain, but I don't understand why such an order isn't applied to cloudflare themselves?
In Italy, Serie A got the approval of Government to do so, which is even worse
I fervently hope that no one manages to obtain a similar judgment at the pan-EU level, that would be a disaster.
As shitty as the government approach is here we can't keep glossing over the fact that a significant part of the web is now incredibly dependent on Cloudflare and no matter how many times we face issues with huge consequences nobody seems to care.
Personally, myself I have been greatly impacted by this measures. Several services of mine were unavailable because LaLiga said so. No notification, no justification, they block and that's all. It has been a shame since the beginning.