Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Trade Barriers

Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by Moto7451 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @11:17AM (#45836818)

As someone who has had to implement these blocks, it’s not generally done because anyone wants to, it’s because someone passed a law that requires us to do it. I don’t get to override the ITAR or Entities list just because I don’t feel it’s fair someone is on it.

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by stevenicr on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:52PM (#45842032)

Didn't CF CEO post in March 2019 that they were going to start working with govts on suggestions for how to implement laws that would get them to block things people didn't like?

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by Moto7451 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:16PM (#45859152)

Could be. Regulatory capture is evident in a lot of places. TurboTax isn’t accidentally a very easy to use Tax filing software. It gets things right I’ve had expensive CPAs get wrong. TurboTax has more lobbying dollars than the CPA with an office down the street.

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