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by layer8 7 days ago
Regulation could conceivably disallow a single company to control such a significant portion of internet traffic. The parent can be interpreted as lamenting the absence of such regulation.
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The only thing more annoying than people chanting "regulation is bad" is people chanting "regulation is good".

What regulation? Be specific.

CloudFlare provides significant utility to me. I chose to use them. Explain why you think someone else needs to butt into this relationship.

I wasn't advocating regulation. I was arguing against the claim that "nobody allowed anything". The absence of regulation is allowing things.
It's certainly a huge risk when one company's outage can take down so much of internet. Decentralization and the ability to route around damage was a core feature of the internet. The more we depend on the internet, the less acceptable that loss becomes.