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 ACCount37 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @11:54AM (#45837289)

Part of the reason I don't like Cloudflare. Their "black hole the entire country" function is a function no company should provide.

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by yachad on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:40PM (#45837897)

On the contrary, if you don’t have business in a country and they just spam you or try to hack you why not block the whole IP range. China, India, Russia, Subsaharan Africa, SEA

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by em-bee on Thursday November 06, 2025 @03:21PM (#45839912)

so as a traveler, i can't access important sites in my home country because i happen to be in a different country that you decided to block?

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by prmoustache on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:12PM (#45838354)

you don't need cloudflare for that.

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by duxup on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:00PM (#45838162)

Companies should have that option if they choose, to apply to themselves at will.

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by remarkEon on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:24PM (#45838513)

Why not? There’s no right to force everyone on the internet to interact with everyone else.

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by throw0101d on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:59PM (#45838929)

> Their "black hole the entire country" function is a function no company should provide.

If I can have that feature with an on-prem firewall or load balancer, why can't I ask the in-cloud equivalent to also have it?

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