I'm not sure it's that outrageous. They could just have the ISP take you down on account of the content here on CI. I'm actually a bit surprised that they haven't already tried -- except that perhaps they think the forum/site is small enough that it's not any kind of threat to them. I bet that if somehow membership and traffic on this site exploded, they'd be getting a corrupt judge issue an order to the ISP to take down your connectivity. They blocked the President of the United States off of Twitter, Facebook, etc. ... well short of before they start rounding people up into camps. And even the temporary outage could be caused by a DDOS attack.
DDoS is more possible than the first option. But even then -- it would probably be temporary; it would come and go. It's not like I need the site up 24/7 so people will send in their $10 a month, and if the site is down enough, then everyone will cancel their service. NOPE. All those "compromised" PCs will have other sites to attack besides mine; and if the botnets are active too much, their owners will discover the malware infection and remove it. CathInfo isn't hosted on an old laptop either -- you have to be a Big Boy for me to even notice.
Facebook and Twitter are services -- they aren't some kind of public utilities that everyone has a right to. Facebook and Twitter are private websites, private corporations that have "Terms of service" and sometimes they can be unfair -- but they are still well within their rights to ban someone.
Internet access is more equivalent to electricity, phone, natural gas, water, sewer, or garbage service. Utilities that even convicted criminals get to enjoy in this country -- assuming they have served any prison sentence(s). Especially considering this is 2022, where many people work from home. Internet access is as necessary as electricity for a man whose career involves working from home in 70% of cases. And entire homes are designed to need the Internet now -- the "Smart Home". I'm against "smart" devices myself, but they don't know that. There are households with 1-2 kids that have 65 or even 100 devices connected to their WIFI router: light bulbs, appliances, tablets, phones, video cameras, TVs, monitors, you name it.
SERVICES and WEBSITES, even webhosting services and various money-handling services (Paypal, GoFundMe, etc.) I've seen many times. But basic utilities, or being allowed to shop at grocery stores? As far as I know, even the most hated people can still enter any store they want. They just might get harassed by the patrons if they're infamous enough.
Topic: Major CathInfo outage (Read 11547 times)