[tmpX7dMeXU]

Hacker News nerds will argue all day long that the Internet is a utility when the argument happens to personally benefit them, then in the same breath say that a random network admin is justified in blocking a whole ISP subnet due to one “bad” actor. And of course by bad actor I mean person that almost certainly accidentally got themselves infected with malware by not understanding the completely Byzantine world of computers and the Internet.

[grotorea]

Well, if someone had somehow gotten their house wires damaged in a way that causes brownouts to neighbours, wouldn't the electric company be justified in cutting off the house?