[andrepd]

You're right, we need big tech to protect us from the problems big tech created.

In the olden 20th century, we had a term for that...

[2ndorderthought]

You know that protection racket where the mobster came to my corner store and says if I don't pay him he will come later and rough me up? This is a worse deal than that.

[PeterStuer]

Better turn on that 'free' Cloudflare 'bot' protection. Would be a shame if our, ahem, I mean, those botnets ddos'ed your site.

[mannanj]

this is the modern version of that.