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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by tedivm on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:52PM (#16312573)
It's FUD because it does not apply, at all, to the existing scenario. Common Carriers have specific legal meanings, and internet companies don't fall under that.

This comes up all the time. During the Obama administration there was talk about reclassifying network services so that this would apply (it would make things like home internet far more competitive if it was). That never happened.

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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by jacquesm on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:46AM (#16315889)
> internet companies don't fall under that.

ISPs actually do. And they are very much internet companies.

CF's whole mistake was to pretend that they were nothing more than dumb pipes and that what was legal or at least not explicitly ruled forbidden on a case-by-case basis was good enough for them. They never were dumb pipes, they always had editorial control and they provided the proof of this themselves.

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