ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

So we were concerned when we started hearing from multiple sources that Hurricane Electric, a Tier 1 ISP, is interfering with traffic. Confirmation of the details has been difficult, in part because Hurricane itself has refused to respond to our queries, but it appears that the company is partially denying service to a direct customer, a provider called Crunchbits, in order to disrupt traffic to a site that is several steps away in the stack.

oh fuck, i have been dreading this day

[–]notafed 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

going to be a lot more VPNs required going forward.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

VPNs do not solve this problem at scale, but darknets do.

The problem is that Crunchbits hosts a site A, so all Hurricane Electric needs to do is throttle all encrypted traffic or just refuse to do business. The architecture of the Internet is flawed, because political reasons block traffic. A better designed Internet would not have any ability to "block" anything.

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The internet was supposed to be "smart devices - dumb network". Well, the network got smart and now we have this.

[–]LatvianFaggot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i am sitting here watching you squirm... you deserve this.. with as evil of an operation as this website is, i just want for you to know that i am going to laughing with joy when you get your domain seized by the feds.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Guess EFF is unaware the US has been pussiefide a long time ago