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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by loeg on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:19PM (#45842601)
> KYC/AML have an effectiveness that rounds to zero

That's factually inaccurate.

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Re:Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Eff... by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:08AM (#45844750)
> That's factually inaccurate.

It isn't:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

"It finds that the anti-money laundering policy intervention has less than 0.1 percent impact on criminal finances, compliance costs exceed recovered criminal funds more than a hundred times over, and banks, taxpayers and ordinary citizens are penalized more than criminal enterprises."

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