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> Sorry citizen, google services are inaccessible because the only ISP in your city sold a service to a bad actor.

> We might fix this, we might not, you DONT have a choice.

> Thank you for your continued business.

Indistinguishable from the kind of service I get from Google - the moment that I need a human involved I just close my account with whatever Google service is misbehaving and move on.

But you have other options which is my point.

(swap in any corpo-service provider you personally like the most)

Blanket banning subnet ranges from services because of the actions of someone else is 3rd world shit.

Hacker News nerds will argue all day long that the Internet is a utility when the argument happens to personally benefit them, then in the same breath say that a random network admin is justified in blocking a whole ISP subnet due to one “bad” actor. And of course by bad actor I mean person that almost certainly accidentally got themselves infected with malware by not understanding the completely Byzantine world of computers and the Internet.

Well, if someone had somehow gotten their house wires damaged in a way that causes brownouts to neighbours, wouldn't the electric company be justified in cutting off the house?

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