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The second major source of controversy comes from the AHBL's Shoot On Sight listing policy, which is commonly used by its administrators to force ISPs to take action against entities that the AHBL considers to be abusers, and against entities that make legal or "Cart00ney" threats against the AHBL or
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The AHBL has also listed GoDaddy's hosting services due to continued hosting of The Free Speech Store (Richard
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nodes. It included all Tor nodes, including entrance, transit, and exit nodes on the Tor network. As the list contained entrance and transit nodes, not just exit nodes, AHBL recommends against using the TORbl for e-mail blocking purposes.
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