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Ignoring the narrative portion , I routinely block the PQ IP spaces which change frequently in my services. They are mass brute force and exploit attempt-abuse report is ignored, spam/exploit scan, botnet CNC

They are also UpStream of several other provider. For example https://bgp.he.net/AS215540#_prefixes

I have not seen legitimate single request from ANY ip in this. Only spam bot and brute.

And you never would - if you keep slapping IP bans left and right.

Blanket IP bans should have died back in 00s, where they belong. Instead, we still get wannabe webmasters applying them willy-nilly - with gatekeepers like Cloudflare enabling them.

From TFA

> Materializing just two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Stark Industries Solutions became a frequent source of massive DDoS attacks, Russian-language proxy and VPN services, malware tied to Russia-backed hacking groups, and fake news.

I did a pro bono analysis of a ddos against a dolphin protection non profit, probably a lashing out from a butthurt fishing concern. A significant amount of traffic in that attack originated from the stark asn. Interesting to see them here.

> censorship of Russians

why not censor Russians? They had as of now already censored forever about a million of Ukranians and have shown all the intentions to do it more and more.

And Russia doesn't allow foreign propaganda inside Russia (it is a felony there), so it is absolutely normal to block Russian propaganda inside the foreign countries (and notice that nobody spreading Russian propaganda are put in jail for that in foreign countries though that would be only fair) .

Because the tools created for censorship for the good cause are too dangerous to exist

Governments quickly realize that they cannot effectively block websites in foreign jurisdictions. The only way to achieve this is to tell local ISPs which subnets to block, and fine them if they disobey. When this automation is in place, the government can block any website in a matter of hours, no matter where it is located

>Because the tools created for censorship for the good cause are too dangerous to exist ....the government can block any website in a matter of hours

yet the tools of war do exist. Even though the government can kill anybody in a matter of minutes.

And we do already have tools to block spam, and there is no difference between spam and Russian propaganda.

Comparing it to the physical thing is not fair. Murder is slow, and for mass murder at least there are people who will have to agree and do it. Compare it to automatically blocking a website after a button is pressed

And murder is transparent, you cannot murder many people without a public reaction. With the internet though... They can block thousands of IPS and no one will know. And you cannot access the database of the blocked resources because, who are you, a pedophile?

I have a feeling I cannot explain how painful it is to live in a country destroying the internet. I wanted to leave the Russia even before the war because of that. Now I am extremely allergic to any government's censorship attempts

The tools exist as is, that cat has been out of the bag for quite a while.

Not in my country. The ISP just blocks a domain name on the ISP-provided DNS server, which is a joke in the world of dns-over-https

The ISP chooses to not do that. The tools exist, they cost more money and complexity, but they definitely exist.

Have you heard of the great firewall of China at all?

This is not "censorship". These are Russian state-sponsored influence operations against countries it might want to invade (hybrid warfare)

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