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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by pixl97 on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:55PM (#32727846)
Also I am almost certain if you were using your natural gas utility to shoot flames at the neighbors houses, or using your power to electrocute people walking by, that you'd have your service disconnected rather quickly until it was proved you're not a public harm.
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by wizofaus on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:21PM (#32728201)
Were you actually electrocuting them I'm fairly sure you'd end up in gaol before having to deal with service disconnection.
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by pixl97 on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:39PM (#32729809)
While from my original post it's assumed it was intentional malice creating the dangerous situation, but there plenty of real world situations where service is disconnected for safety reasons.

We act like utilities are some inalienable right, but this is by far the worst argument ever. Licensed installers setup the utilities and have the work inspected. At any point where your environment presents a hazard, the utilities will be disconnected until it passes another inspection.

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