Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

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• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s funny how many rules there’s made by the party who always talk about freedom.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They only want the freedom to be able drain the bank accounts of their cattle constituents into the bank accounts of the oligarchs who own them.

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• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck these assholes, too many idiots in America who choose not to vote or vote for the worst pieces of shit in politics.

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  • danielhanrahantng@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh it’s more than that.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I love how the Republicans like to talk shit about China, then turn around and propose their own Great Firewall, cameras on every corner, and so on.

  And sure, the Democrats aren’t much better here, but these seem to be pushed more aggressively by the Republicans it seems. Plus, for a party that claims to want less government, it’s very obvious that this goes against their brand.

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• Ooops@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And who’s going to block all the freely available DNS servers? 😆

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And who’s going to block all the freely available DNS servers, proxies and also TOR?

    The ISPs will do the blocking if ordered and it will catch 99,99% of people. The average person doesn’t know how to use advanced techniques and it’s tricky even for tech savvy people. Using the wrong proxy for example can cause more trouble than it solves. VPNs and custom DNS are also trivial to block. Large-enough corporations can be trivially extempt from peasant blocking.

    It was done in Spain, the right-holders for soccer managed to get themselves in a legal position to tell the ISPs what IPs to block and they issued overly-broad ranges to be blocked. I was in Spain this summer for World Cup and when a match was on you could not reach completely unrelated services in other countries. It’s ridiculous and probably will get reversed in court but it was done, however temporarily, and it works.

    Internet censorship is very easy to do, I don’t know why some people tunnel-vision on the fact it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be perfect to still be very effective.

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    • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Internet censorship is very easy to do, I don’t know why some people tunnel-vision on the fact it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be perfect to still be very effective.

      That was my actual point. It’s effective for censorship and targeting the broader population. It’s ineffective for preventing piracy as a lot of people there are indeed tech-affine and belonging to the <1% that will go the extra mile to circumvent it.

      So implementing provider and dns blocks against piracy is either stupid or an intentional lie. I assume the latter.

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• username_1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And non-praising news outlets. But be calm. Not from the start. Eventually. In a year or something…

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• unholy3313@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Finally, I2P’s time to shine.

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• danielhanrahantng@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That law is a bad idea

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yet again they trot out billions in losses for the MPA caused by piracy.

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• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We gotta start moving stuff to .onion.

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  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tor has been compromised for a while. Try I2P instead.

    malwarebytes.com/…/tor-anonymity-compromised-by-l…

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  as opposed to legistlate more important things. the tried this in the 1st term.

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