Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by randyrand on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:43PM
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What about Cloudflare/AWS? Cloudflare notably denied to service some unruly websites, and those websites got DDOSed off the web.
Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by triceratops on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:18AM
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Good question. I don't know the answer.
Social media is the opposite. Abusive users of those networks operate at the application layer, and can spoil the experience of other users at the application layer but (likely) not at the network layer. So they moderate user activity at the application layer.
In each case it's about trying to ensure bad actors don't ruin other customers'/users' experience. It's just done in different ways depending on what part of the network stack the bad actors do their work in.