Cloudflare was responsive and reasonable. Verizon was unreachable and deflected responsibility when they finally made a statement. And public shaming does often motivate companies to be more responsive to their customers.
AFAIK Cloudflare isn't in any way a "customer" of Verizon. Verizon doesn't owe Cloudflare any kind of response or devotion of resources. Verizon owes it's actual customers a resolution to their problem, which they gave.
I'm not saying Verizon is perfect nor absolved of fault, but Cloudflare was/is not owed any kind of explanation or assistance by VZ, and it's absurd of CF to still be whining about that fact (as they are doing in some other tweets today). If CF wants some kind of SLA with VZ, they should engage them in a business relationship, not try to publicly shame them.
I’d say what they really need is a representative governing body over major network carriers to establish proper standards and levy fines for those that do not comply.
Kind of similar to a homes association saying “hey that trash on your lawn affects your neighbor, clean it up!”
It’s true that they are not a customer but at that level what they do affects each other, and it’s better to resolve things civilly and privately instead of publicly on twitter.
In theory this should be the job of the FCC, and in Europe the local regulatory agencies (BNetzA in Germany for example). But properly funding them to do their jobs doesn't seem to be very high om the political agendas these days.
For some reason this reminded me about the still-unsolved San Jose substation physical attack. The shooters did a lot of damage but didn’t interrupt much power.
One of the article comments suggests antitrust action, so I looked up prior lawsuits against ICANN for abusing their monopoly. The only one I found shows it being settled, not dismissed. Maybe it’s time to start filing complaints with government agencies against ICANN.
I think they were comparing the fact that both ISIS and the people in this article (leftists) were bent on destroying art that they didn’t like. And you were directly rude to that person.
Plenty of people on the left compare the right to Nazism, which is equally obnoxious and rude. Not saying you did, but those types of generalizations aren't really conducive to proper discussion.
I dislike China for running concentration camps for Muslims, organ harvesting, social scores, no free speech, and having made Xi a dictator for life. I’m pretty sure Americans have a lot of other reasons like job losses, real estate money laundering, etc.
The US supports numerous regimes guilty of the exact things you're describing, with financial aid, military security guarantees and arms sales. What's your stance on those?
China's economic threat has magnified several fold because the US has spent the past 2 decades mired in conflicts that have been stoked by its allies in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, China has had a free hand in developing trade relations with its neighbouring states and African countries, further weakening the US' position there.
Whatever billions the US has earned selling weapons to KSA are a drop in the bucket compared to what it's spent in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and Pakistan. These are all countries where KSA has funded extremist political movements that continue to destabilize the region.
