Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by kodah on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:25AM
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There is no DDoS that's minimally violent. You are right though, not all DDoS attacks are politically motivated.
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:40AM
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Whatever, can we say it's a 3/10 or less on the violence scale instead of having an argument about what "minimal" means?
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
by kodah on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:53PM
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For certain things I will measure/compare harmfulness relative to potential outcomes because sometimes doing enforcement is suboptimal. In this case, however, we're talking about someone co-opting the governments monopoly on violence, which is more of an issue of principle. Once you let people co-opt that, it's a fairly run-away train. That's a long way of saying, for me this situation is very binary. There's no degrees of vigilantism.