Comment by Vaushite
16 hours ago
Knowing the identity allows you to block them. You can also prosecute them for DDoS, which is already illegal.
16 hours ago
Knowing the identity allows you to block them. You can also prosecute them for DDoS, which is already illegal.
What good is blocking the ones in your jurisdiction when the internet is global and then they just operate from somewhere else?
Because you can make it not without much difficulty. There's plenty of sites that operate entirely within the US and it's trivial to hard block everyone else. It's not perfect but assuming the law actually works (which isn't a given) inside US borders we now get the advantages of a high-trust system.
At absolute minimum it should mean that US ranges could see fewer captchas because bad actors can be whacked by the legal system instead of degrading user experience.
> There's plenty of sites that operate entirely within the US and it's trivial to hard block everyone else.
It's trivial to block IP addresses listed as being somewhere else. That doesn't block people in other jurisdictions from using a US IP address, either by renting or compromising one in the US or having administrative control over one somewhere else and then setting its metadata to whatever they want.
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