Re:Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1....
by ben509 on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:33AM
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I don't think this argument is well stated, so I'll give it a shot.
CloudFlare is very basic infrastructure and there are a handful of companies providing such infrastructure, thus a group can be effectively deleted from the Internet if these companies decide or are pressured to do so. (Example of pressuring: Patreon dropped some accounts at the behest of Mastercard.)
So maybe the real question is, "does this notion of the integrity of DNS extend to other basic infrastructure services?"
CloudFlare is very basic infrastructure and there are a handful of companies providing such infrastructure, thus a group can be effectively deleted from the Internet if these companies decide or are pressured to do so. (Example of pressuring: Patreon dropped some accounts at the behest of Mastercard.)
So maybe the real question is, "does this notion of the integrity of DNS extend to other basic infrastructure services?"