backbones filtering unsanctioned sites

Tue Feb 14 13:25:07 UTC 2017

* nanog at nanog.org (Patrick Boyle via NANOG) [Tue 14 Feb 2017, 14:16 CET]:
>Even more concerning, on the surface it looks like there could be 
>some cooperation by Cloudflare. If you look at the list of domains 
>that contain an A record for that IP, it's almost all torrent sites 
>and mirrors. Could they have placed all these domains behind that IP 
>for a purpose like this?

Why wouldn't they try to limit collateral damage by censorious 
governments?  Are you suggesting they instead hold their other 
customers hostage?

	-- Niels.