“When a person uses a room in a house to engage in illegal or just terrible activity, we don’t call on the electric company to cut off the light and heat to the entire house, or the post office to stop delivering mail.”
Hurricane Electric, a Tier 1 backbone, is partially cutting off its customer Crunchbits to disrupt Kiwi Farms, a site several steps down the stack that it has no relationship with. Hurricane won’t answer questions about it. Nobody will defend Kiwi Farms, which is exactly why it makes the perfect test case. The next request comes from a state attorney general who wants abortion funds off the internet, and the precedent is already set.