Comment by okasaki
1 day ago
UK site blocking isn't done with DNS. I think they mess with routes at the ISP level. There's not much you can do except use a VPN.
1 day ago
UK site blocking isn't done with DNS. I think they mess with routes at the ISP level. There's not much you can do except use a VPN.
4chan uses Cloudflare. Blocking routes to Cloudflare may have an interesting impact unless CF are cooperating with the UK.
4chan could stop using CF but their moderators will have to step up their game as CF is being used to detect and block CSAM.
CF will cooperate with UK authorities because they're not in 4chan's business.
I doubt it heavily. CF has control over a large chunk of the global internet - they're not going to go thru their clients one by one and make sure they're doing age verification. That's absurd and far too expensive.
The alternative to that is either:
1. UK blocks cloudflare (unlikely, come on now)
2. UK gives cloudflare a pass (fairly common)
3. Somewhere in-between. Maybe UK cares about highly visible people behind cloudflare like 4Chan but not others.
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AFAIK Cloudflare gives 4chan a dedicated ip to simplify blocking.
I think you may be right. [1] It's the same IP I've had in my hosts file for a long time.
[1] - https://whoisfreaks.com/tools/dns/history/lookup/4chan.org?t...
Cloudflare isn't capable of that - it can only block downloading CSAM not uploading it. (Which means the moderators wouldn't be able to see it either.)
spain block CF every weekend to try to avoid football piracy. crazy, but its happening and nobody cares.
ironic how CF will host 4chan and 8chan but not kiwifarms