Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by wandaluzt on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:21PM
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Cloudflare is the middleman to my site. The individual got a court to issue a subpoena to Cloudflare, a US based company to find out the identity of the operators of the site.
Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by MichaelZuo on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:44PM
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I edited the prior comment a minute after I posted it.
How is that relevant when they would still need to go to a UK court to go after you in some way?
Which is what you are afraid of, I’m assumming?
Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by wandaluzt on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:51PM
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At least in the UK a lawyer would tell him whether he had a case or not. At least I'd be dealing with the UK court system where I have some chance of understanding it. I also have legal insurance. I do not genuinely believe it would get to court. Cloudflare just handing over details is just chilling. They could have just asked me to take the content down.
From what I understand anyone in the UK can make claims, file cases, etc…, against anyone else.
Edit: They may take action in another jurisdiction where they posesss some advantage, but it would have to be taken up in UK courts to actually mete out formal punishment.