alt Hacker NewsIt’s not ridiculous.
Hosting providers should be good citizens of the network and immediately terminate spammer accounts. This used to be standard practice until about 2015. When suddenly management decided it’s more profitable host spammers than not.
I think this is a great policy decision by uceprotect.
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goldenmember • today at 2:00 PM
Following your logic, we'd need to block the entire US, since that's where DigitalOcean's ASN is registered.
Why DigitalOcean in particular though? Why not Cloudflare? A significant percentage of malicious and spam traffic is hosted on or routed through cloudflare services. Why not AWS? Same thing. It's a personal grudge, and they aren't quite big enough or have powerful enough lawyers to cause a widespread problem if put on a list, so, the big players are left alone.
All that aside, the website and their communication around this over the years is extraordinarily unprofessional and it's astounding to me they wield such power.