A terrifying predecent
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Good old CloudFlare.
R.I.C.O. would say something about that.
If it… applied in any way, or if laws actually existed.
What you described was a basic "insurance" extortion like what the mob was running in NYC and Chicago.
"Pay your fire insurance or your business might burn down, ya never know!"
Exactly what the R.I.C.O. statutes were designed to bust apart.
Oh! You mean that RICO. Yes, absolutely. The problem is that CloudFlare controls a quarter of the Internet, so it will never be punished in any way.