To put this in mechanical terms, once I know how to replace every last component in my car and have the ability to fabricate new parts for the body and frame under what conditions could my car ever be unrepairable?

TIL you can taunt LLMs. I guess they exhibit more competitive spirit than I thought.

That's an interesting point. Are their margins so slim that they can't afford less than ~$50 per domain? I'm not familiar with their revenue model.

This is the sort of thing that could be done via the legislature if Spain were serious and playing by the rules. They could require ISPs to do DNS filtering based on domain age during matches. If they really wanted to do service level filtering they could require hosts such as CF to perform geoblocking in a similar manner during matches.

> Dangerous stuff (e.g. streaming) could only be made available upon a security deposit.

Let's set aside for a moment that I think this suggestion is completely absurd. Are these sites using some prepackaged streaming solution? Do you not realize that I can stream video from any machine using software I control? To an approximation the only thing required to scale streaming up to lots of customers is raw bandwidth. If you don't accommodate seeking you can potentially serve thousands of simultaneous streams with a single cheap VPS (in practice this won't work because a cheap VPS won't have a 100 Gbit pipe).

> So why shouldn't you need to pass some set of verification

Since when have you needed a license or verification to publish? You're acting as though a global impressum requirement is the natural state of affairs. Your demand is an affront to free society.

> we let ISPs get away with ignoring abuse@ emails

That seems like an entirely separate matter, if it's even true at all.

> No

Ah yes, a rousing argument. Obviously you must be correct.

You've failed to make a convincing case as to why deciding what is and isn't permissible isn't the job of the judiciary. If Spain wants to change that then they need to pass laws to that effect but in practice those won't have global reach. Thus they might (for example) engage in international lobbying efforts to incorporate a DMCA equivalent for illegal streaming into the global copyright regime.

Failing the above it is Spain that is in the wrong here and I'm happy to see that CF isn't going along with their overbearing and entirely unreasonable nonsense.

How do you propose customers ought to be vetted? Why should a host be expected to take on the duties of a hall monitor? Isn't that the judiciary's job?

I think it is actually Spain using their residents as hostages in an attempt to extort Cloudflare and other large providers. The current situation is best described as blatantly corrupt regulatory capture.

What technical solutions can't change is the underlying social dynamics.

Why would Twitter voluntarily run that sort of query to satisfy a subpoena?

Whether it's difficult and risky for the average user depends on the threat model. "Twitter doesn't directly have my name, address, or phone number sitting in their database next to my account" is easy. Other things are more difficult.

That said I don't know how much browser fingerprinting Twitter might be doing and if fingerprints from other services might be possible to crossreference. Much higher risk is probably visiting other sites both with and without the VPN using the same browser without thinking about it and thus leaking your fingerprint or even account cookies that way. Or if you don't run a filter then visiting a site without the VPN that embeds Twitter tracking assets would leak to them directly.

I think rather than AI it reminds me of when (long before AI) a few colleagues would converge on an article to post supportive comments in what felt like an attempt to manipulate the narrative and even at concentrations that I find surprisingly low it would often skew my impression of the tone of the entire comment section in a strange way. I guess you could more generally describe the phenomenon as fan club comments.