[NANOG] Re: ISPs in Spain are blocking CDN IP ranges to tackle soccer piracy

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> Also, the same principle that prevents Spain from selectively blocking
> a single Cloudflare site, also prevents me, as a network
> administrator, in the privacy of my own home, from blocking ads and
> other undesirable resources throughout the entirety of my home
> network, on all devices, in bulk.


Strange, I do that on my home network and it works just fine.

It's not a CDN's responsibility :
A : To help a country enforce a law that was written without considering
the technical ways in which it could be enforced
B : To help if an improper technical solution is chosen that impacts other
services as well

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM Constantine A. Murenin via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> Not quite, because the entire Wikipedia in all languages is then
> simply blocked, so, they're not even able to read any of the other
> articles from Wikipedia either, in any language.  This violates primal
> protocol design principles of flexibility and resilience, business
> continuity and backwards compatibility.
>
> Also, the same principle that prevents Spain from selectively blocking
> a single Cloudflare site, also prevents me, as a network
> administrator, in the privacy of my own home, from blocking ads and
> other undesirable resources throughout the entirety of my home
> network, on all devices, in bulk.
>
> And after the ability to do this network-wide blocking has been
> removed, Cloudflare's partners are also slowly but surely removing the
> ability to block said content within your own endpoint devices, too,
> by removing all the ad-blockers from all the stores, and preventing
> relevant API access from within the browser, too; plus making it a ToS
> violation to alter website contents through a plug-in.  Sorry, but
> Cloudflare is not a good guy in this story.
>
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 at 18:20, <nanog () immibis com> wrote:
> > The same principle that prevents Spain from selectively blocking a
> > single Cloudflare site also prevents dictators from murdering anyone in
> > the country who edits their Wikipedia page unfavourably, so keep that in
> > mind.
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