That law is a bad idea
Fuck these assholes, too many idiots in America who choose not to vote or vote for the worst pieces of shit in politics.
Oh it’s more than that.
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. Plus, for a party that claims to want less government, it’s very obvious that this goes against their brand.
It’s funny how many rules there’s made by the party who always talk about freedom.
They only want the freedom to be able drain the bank accounts of their
cattleconstituents into the bank accounts of the oligarchs who own them.
And who’s going to block all the freely available DNS servers, proxies and also TOR? 😆
That’s just another piece of bullshit legislature to enact censorship measures in the name of some seemingly legit reason. You will never actually get rid of piracy sites with local ISP and DNS blocks. But the moment there is a procedure to easily make them happen, they can indeed be used to block the not tech-affine majority of people from news and information they should not see.
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.
And I won’t even get into what happens if they criminalize bypassing the blocking and consider it “domestic terrorism”.
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.
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.
And non-praising news outlets. But be calm. Not from the start. Eventually. In a year or something…
Finally, I2P’s time to shine.
Yet again they trot out billions in losses for the MPA caused by piracy.
We gotta start moving stuff to .onion.
Tor has been compromised for a while. Try I2P instead.
as opposed to legistlate more important things. the tried this in the 1st term.
