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People have been complaining for years about some of the content they shield (KF especially). The site is responsible for at least one previous suicide. Their response is always the same... to forward the complaints onto the abuser for them to laugh at.

Cloudflare has only ever intervened in matters like this when the mainstream press has given them an absolute and utter kicking.

The sad fact is, when you have your own AS-number and peering agreement, you can do pretty much whatever you like on the Internet.

De-peering a few of the worst network abusers and "it's not my problem, I just want the money" merchants would go a long way to improving the internet for the rest of us.

This might seem hardline, but it's not without precedent: the precedent is the Internet itself, in its earlier days.




Would anything stop the de-peered providers from peeing with each other, leading to a balkanized internet?


ISVs would love it, you could sign up for multiple networks. It would be like paying for a gateway provider to reach an existing walled garden like China.




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