Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by pjc50 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:07AM
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Ironically law enforcement are part of the problem: if you want someone murdered over the internet in the US, by far the easiest way is to make a bogus phone call to the police. Doesn't work all the time but it's pretty risk free for the perpetrator.
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by vorpalhex on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:22AM
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Unarmed police shootings are amazingly rare on a yearly basis.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by judge2020 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:36AM
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And yet there are compilation videos of streamers being swatted on stream[0]. If someone has an address, all it takes are some anonymous calling techniques / a burner phone to traumatize the occupants by calling in a fake hostage situation or something of that caliber.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by staringback on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:53PM
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Are these people getting shot and killed on their stream? This is not related to the topic.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by schleck8 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:58PM
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Yes, that has happened repeatedly before. People have been killed by swatting. In the United States of course.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by umvi on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:43PM
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what % of the videos in the compilation involve an "unarmed police shooting" vs. a "swatting"? The original assertion by GP was that actually dying at the hands of police during such an event is extremely rare, an assertion that your link does not seem to refute.