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Maybe they are afraid that once you start doing this, it may never end. Once you cut somebody out from your network, then you can no longer argue that you are just the dump pipe and don't judge your customers. This can lead to demands for cutting access to sites hosting controversial content etc. All this may generate tons of extra work and no matter what you do, you certainly are not going to please everybody.



Yeah but if someone comes along, cuts open your dumb pipe and redirects the flow somewhere else you obviously have a right to go after them.

As others have stated this isn't about blocking content, this is about cutting off an entity that was actively damaging infrastructure.




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