Comment by dkh
9 months ago
The simplified answer is that Spain has greater net neutrality laws than most other places, and on top of that the relevant European Union laws specifically forbid any lawful blocking/enforcement action if it causes a nontrivial amount of collateral damage to unrelated parties. So in theory the court order should've violated both Spanish and European law.
https://www.redes-sociales.com/bloqueo-cloudflare-parte-lali...
> the relevant European Union laws specifically forbid any lawful blocking/enforcement action if it causes a nontrivial amount of collateral damage to unrelated parties.
Then I guess the answer comes down to whether sharing IP address makes a party related.
Legally is it collateral damage to unrelated parties. It is cloudflare's servers providing the infringing content, and the cloudflare's servers being blocked. Does Spain net neutrality protections grant some kind of common carrier protections to CDN networks? Would be nice if they did.