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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by ilikecakeandpie on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:59AM (#34789315)
> Applying such decisions at such a low level will only result in the balkanization of the Internet

Are we not already there with states being able to dictate what is and isn't allowed?

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by lxgr on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:52AM (#34790121)
We are, so arguably we don't need private entities joining in the wall building frenzy just yet.
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by AlexAltea on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:41AM (#34791927)
Yes, but those are legal measures, not technical ones as OP implied.

Technical measures such as "not letting CN/RU on the Internet", involve at least blocking their IP space at BGP level (null routing as in China's Great Firewall), or even reallocating their IP space.

The Internet might be more or less fragmented due to bureaucracy (see GDPR and HTTP Error 451 Unavailable for legal reasons), but at least everyone can pretty much agree where a public IP address points to. That's a high-level fragmentation.

Breaking up the very foundation of the Internet... that could get really messy and complicated.

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