>This is exactly what I immediately thought while reading the article. It almost feels like the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it.

Welcome to the modern day aristocracy. Not only what you mentioned, this world is also divided into a group of insider who can get capital from 0 - 2%, while rest of us has a cost of 17%, 22% or 30%?

>Then, crack the whip on manufacturers of smart devices. Mandate that every Thing sold with an internet connectivity get at least security updates for a decade, and that the full source code for everything in it including signing keys for firmware be submitted to Library of Congress or whatever archive and released when the manufacturer either goes bust or declares end of life for that Thing.

This is much needed as to not have a bunch of e-wast. Of course pretty sure this will cut into next year's new model's profit. Do we really this new model of phone/computer every few year?

This can be a slippery slop into censorship! Or a corporate feudal divide up the Internet segments by geo-locations.

Of course in general I do feel better about Cloudflare than Google making money.