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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by rotarycellphone on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:28AM (#46564480)
so what? let politicians “protect” us? it already went too far. a lot of liberal democratic states are going towards electronic dictatorship, when you are under total control and allowed to do only what is permitted by somebody’s made-up rules. all those e-IDs tightly coupled with your biometric identity are no more than developing a simple idea — a simple idea that some people want to control other people.

so, no, thanks. i don’t want this, at least for those countries that are still more or less free from it. i already live in one where we have to fight this dictate every day: opening a browser, writing a post, doing whatever we want, but not the way guys who captured power want it.

this perspective — “just let them protect us” — comes from a democratic habit. when you’re used to living this way, you can trust elected people.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by dependsontheq on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:31AM (#46564491)
an account created 5 minutes ago
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by budududuroiu on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:52AM (#46564613)
Their point still stands though
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by whilenot-dev on Saturday January 10, 2026 @07:10AM (#46565056)
It isn't even obvious to me which country GP refers to when they write "i already live in one". No reasonable individual would criticize "liberal politicians" and "electronic dictatorship" without making it absolutely clear where they are coming from. This obfuscation seems like a deliberate choice and makes any standing point balancing on crutches.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by AlexeyBelov on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:48AM (#46574835)
No. Troll accounts are not a good thing.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by jetsetk on Saturday January 10, 2026 @06:02AM (#46564658)
How is that relevant wrt the argument?
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by ErroneousBosh on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:48AM (#46564586)
HN should put the IP addresses that comments from brand new accounts are posted from right beside the name.

I bet you'd be able to plot some pretty interesting maps from that.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by Bender on Saturday January 10, 2026 @06:03AM (#46564661)
Maybe the first two octets but HN does not block proxies, VPS nodes, servers, etc... The site would have to block such things for new accounts and store the IP used to create the account for that information to be useful assuming residential shady VPN's were not used. I doubt that level of change would occur here given the topic of dark mode comes up often.