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1. stefangordon · 1790966673 · focus · 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.

   1. ryandrake · 1790967513 · focus · HN ↗

      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.

      1. someonebaggy · 1791029141 · focus · HN ↗

         It's not practical because IPs are routed in blocks, and this is necessary for efficiency. Otherwise every single router on the internet would have to remember the locations of up to 100 billion connections, and when the internet surpasses this size every router will need to be replaced.

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