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by jedberg 1714 days ago
Except UPS doesn't find drugs because they don't look for it. Just like Cloudflare doesn't look for illegal content.

If someone told UPS a package has drugs in it, they'd say, "that's nice, talk to the sender" and then deliver the package. If someone tells Cloudflare, "that content is illegal", they say, "that's nice, talk to the site owner".
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vkou 1714 days ago
> If someone told UPS a package has drugs in it, they'd say, "that's nice, talk to the sender" and then deliver the package.

Would they? Or would they turn the package over to the police?

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scaryclam 1713 days ago
Usually, people don't tell UPS they have a drugs package, they tell the police directly and the police go and work with UPS. That's the issue with many of these analogies, people don't talk to the car dealership/UPS/landlord/hotel staff/etc, they talk to the authorities because that's the normal thing to do.
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