It's a temporary solution though. It's only going to get more draconian. Next thing you know the talk is about punishing VPN users, because now they can be painted as evading the law.

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nicman23 10 hours ago | parent [-]

i mean yeah but you cannot do shit all about a vps. commercial vpns yeah you can ban and monitor. a vps is your own device just elsewhere

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mschuster91 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> i mean yeah but you cannot do shit all about a vps

Of course you can. The AS numbers of major hosting providers are well known and it is already common practice to ban associated IP addresses for stuff that should only be done by legitimate users.

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nicman23 8 hours ago | parent [-]

you cannot ban aws or linenode my dude

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jbstack 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Why not?

	▲	nicman23 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		because half of the internet is there