Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by tambourine_man on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:08PM
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There are ways in which water and oil are similar. There are also analogies which are of little use. When you reach for a group “made up of human beings” as a similarity, you clinging on the latter.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by rcoveson on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:41PM
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Quote it as written: "organizations made up of human beings providing important services to the general public"; not merely "group made up of human beings."
An organization is more specific than a "group."
They both provide services to the general public, i.e. they are indiscriminant in who their clients are. This is different from, say, a corporate law firm that might decide to take just a handful of cases at a time and be selective about it.
And finally, their services are important, as in livelihood-saving. Of course, firefighters are sometimes life saving, so a better analogy would be firefighters working for agri-business, but "firefighters" still fits better than, say, "AMC theaters" because of the importance of the service offered.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by diordiderot on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:41PM
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Doctors is a better American analogy than firefighters
In that they are both organizations made up of human beings providing important services to the general public, they are the similar. I think that's the similarity that was being emphasized by the analogy.
The analogy still works if you imagine private firefighters (the kind you might contract for a farming operation) instead of public firefighters.