They had a fiduciary duty not to hand out whole /14s of v4 space to snowshoe spammers set up as eastern european LIRs not too long back
as i intended by my reference to martin niemöller, i suspect that's who the net police/vigilantes will come for next. and then ... and then ... it is incremental, each justifies the next. the problem with making weapons is that they will be abused. a good piece on this the other day in the wapo, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/technology-can-be-put-to-good-use--o... there are other means to deal with the hijacking problem without becoming police, judge, jury, and prison all rolled into one. push the technical approaches. use legal resources, the rule of law, before trump erodes it entirely. i hope we are above becoming a lynch mob. randy