1 dayThere is a surprisingly good amount of free games and movies, it would actually save me time if they were to “ban vpns”
- Smaile@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
Sounds like they want people board and mad, a historically winning combination.
- DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
This leads to the government deciding which websites you can visit and cant visit down the line. This is a dystopian level of control and with surveillance already getting dystopian… Pick your dystopian technology book and decide which one we’re leading towards. Fascism policies are already on the rise in democratic worlds.
- HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish4 days
UK already doing this to try to block 4chan. You can decide if that is a good or bad thing.
- tpyo@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Well… bad. No government should be able to tell you what sites you’re allowed to visit
- SpikedIguana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
Yes, I did read it in Jr high so don’t expect a masterpiece but I’d say it’s pretty accurate and can be read in a day.
- yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
…as opposed to the non-democratic worlds, which are already as fascist as you can get, right?
- GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
political theater. won’t happen because it’s unenforceable.
- VPNs operate outside of federal control
- ISPs leverage DNS blocking to censor which is laughable
- DNS exists outside of the US
if this does happen, IF, it has nothing to do with IP rights or protecting Americans. it has everything to do with censoring what the majority of common Americans read online. this is the first step towards blocking news outlets that won’t regurgitate whitehouse directives.
- 3 days
I’m a bit surprised they’ve gone with piracy as an excuse - usually it’s “Think of the children!” Maybe they’ve finally figured out that we already know that republicans are thinking of (molesting) the children so they’ve fallen back on “You wouldn’t download a car”.
- rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
- ISPs leverage DNS blocking to censor
And blocking the IP address of the site in question, as well. That’s why so many “illegal” sites jump around IP addresses like a flea on a hot griddle. They’re trying to remain accessible whenever the ISP prevents direct access.
Because if you block the IP address, blocking DNS is superfluous and performative – it’s just window dressing for better optics towards politicians who don’t understand tech. DNS censorship trivially bypassible by using custom DNS servers that aren’t affected by the censorship, while IP blocking hits everyone who is under that ISP regardless of their DNS settings - they need a VPN to bypass IP blocking.
- GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
all that’s going to do is give them an excuse to block IPs outside the US by the block.
keep an eye on the FCC and any legislation they take against HAM or SDR. without that it would be difficult to have any comms outside the US.
- rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
No, IP blocking is widespread in most places, it’s just that “rights holder” lawsuits go after the domain name, first, both in terms of the registrar and DNS. They also force ISPs to block IP addresses, but this is more of a whack-a-mole prospect so it’s usually a second-order method.
- Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
My ISP wondering why I only ever access 5 servers in Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Finland
- Noam_Calhoun@lemmy.todayEnglish4 days
Great, more boomers who can’t understand how the internet works.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
This doesn’t stem from a lack of understanding. It’s about corporations and control.
- 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
We need to stop believing the boomer’s framing that they’re all old and dumb, and start realizing that they’d eat us if we tasted good
- yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 days
Given all the cute sentient animals humans gleefully consume, your words ring true.
- crapwittyname@feddit.ukEnglish4 days
Those cute sentient animals would eat us too if they were sapient. And we tasted good.
- Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 days
The difference is we pretend to be better than then, we know better and can usually do something about it.
- yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 days
The thing that would make us better isn’t knowing; it’s doing. It makes sense to say that someone who knows better but behaves no better is literally no better.
Rationality is sensitivity and responsiveness to reasons, and plenty of folks are unresponsive to normative facts.
At least 70% of humans are just dangerously intelligent animals. Like imagine a polar bear that can drive and trade stocks. That’s the average person.
- dracc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish4 days
Can’t have those small-time AI startups gathering training data like the big boys do.
- verdigris@lemmy.mlEnglish4 days
No, we’re at the point where the people pushing these laws do understand how the Internet works, and they want to control all of it.
- JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Ironically, that guy was probably the closest any politician at the time got to understanding what the internet was.
- Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
And wouldn’t you know it, anything that disagrees with the current regime is piracy.
- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
That’s the whole point of VPN providers. They’re not in your jurisdiction.
- Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
China inspects each packet for vpn patterns. US still have lots of work to do.
- AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
Don’t worry, we built up lots of processing power in data centers. We’ll get there soon.
This goes far deeper than just “piracy”. Everyone’s favourite section 1201 of the DMCA also means that this bill will result in the US blocking foreign sites which explain to you how to fix your shit if you have to bypass even the most inane digital lock.
Like this will ever work. lol. Just don’t get VPN from a company that is headquartered in the US. Problem solved. There are a million other ways to bypass this. There will ALWAYS be away, they’re just trying to make it harder for the experienced, and impossible for your average Joe.
- takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 days
This is the same party that are all for unregulated AI use and no consequences for breaking copyright to train it.
This bill’s goal is to provide a standardized mechanism to filter sites then start blocking sites that state doesn’t approve.
It’s same as the other “think of the children” bills of the party that is protecting pedophiles.
- gandalfthewhite@lemmy.mlEnglish4 days
The only way to stop it is buy severing all the cables and blowing up the infrastructure. They aren’t prepared to do that.
Literally. This is not a new “fight”. These corrupt, bribes-ridden fuckers have been “fighting” piracy since the inception of the internet, and they’ve always lost, and always lose.
- 3 days
They could also force ISPs to ban VPN IPs that don’t comply with their piracy blocking rules, regardless of whether they’re in the US.
