Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
This is terrible news in the chilling effects department.<p>The mere fact that CloudFlare and similar services are a &quot;requirement&quot; for not being beaten in to submission for pennies of traffic flooding in to a website is a clear design flaw of the global communications system.<p>No site or service should be forced to receive &#x2F;&#x2F;every&#x2F;&#x2F; bit of information sent at it.  Nor should they be forced to blackhole (route) &#x2F;themselves&#x2F; (giving in to the terrorists) out of existence.<p>Clearly, we are lacking a means for pushing &#x27;cancer&#x27; filtering over to the source side of data transit.  To the point where it becomes the problem of the source ISP.  &quot;Block this customer&quot; (for a while) and &quot;don&#x27;t send us any traffic at all&quot; (for a while; in response to &#x2F;far too many&#x2F; abusive customers) are the necessary solutions.