Comment by astrange
9 years ago
We have regulations about ISP filtering (you know, net neutrality?) but they certainly don’t apply to Cloudflare!
9 years ago
We have regulations about ISP filtering (you know, net neutrality?) but they certainly don’t apply to Cloudflare!
Cloudflare is not bound by regulations, but that's not the issue. DDoS is a relatively new phenomenon and so no regulations exist.
The question is, should the Internet be a free and open public forum or not? Should we permit mobs to knock legal servers off the Internet?
That would seem to run counter to the idea of an open internet embodied in net neutrality, upon which certain laws have been developed and passed over the years. It would be a mistake to merely look at the current laws on the books without grasping the underlying general principles.