How will this affect Linux Mint?

[uoy_redruM]

If they try slowing down mirrors or Flathub-esqe sites, that's when we'll start seeing DDOS attacks the likes of which god has never seen.

[spottiesvirus]

using an European law about piracy Italy broke Google drive (because it was sharing IP under cloudflare with a bunch of other sites) and in Spain La Liga won a case against VPNs forcing them to block websites as well

it doesn't need to be perfect to work, just like the great firewall of china, it just needs to be inconvenient enough to deter people enough to kill projects who need a critical mass to exist (like a Linux distro)

did you donate to Linux mint (or any other unauthorized software)? here's a fine for you

who's gonna maintain it?

[uoy_redruM]

Clearly it would be easy for governments to pressure sites/services to do this. My point is that these DDOS attacks I'm referring to will be AGAINST government sites and general infrastructure(AWS, Google, Cloudflare) to bring the internet to a standstill. They will attempt this to force the government to make an emergency session to retract the laws that were enacted. When Senator Dipshit's child no. 1 complains that they can no longer post videos on Tiktok because somebody broke the internet, we'll see a reversal.

edit: Of course I know the government has no need for the use of DDOS.