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stefangordon • today at 6:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you want to ban ISP's in your state, or build a state firewall, or arrest your citizens, you are welcome to do so - but what happens on servers outside your state that your state is choosing to connect to is clearly none of your business.

Seems like we need a fundamental challenge to the concept that you have any jurisdiction whatsoever.


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ryandrake • today at 6:58 PM

Being able to tie an IP to a rough physical location was, in retrospect, a huge Internet design mistake. IPs should be like random UUIDs. They should have been designed to get assigned randomly when you obtain one, rotated / thrown away periodically, with no hierarchical numeric relationship with the ISP that is assigning them.

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