What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations’ best interest for us to not see?
Its good to see congress focusing on the real issues finally. When I pay taxes, this is what I’m looking for. Hopefully they will get around to legalizing kicking homeless people and children in the face soon as this is another one of my priorities.
Won’t someone please think of the children…'s unkicked faces
Thought about it and I don’t like it. Motion carries. * slams gavel on homeless child’s face *
Thank you for your service.
As a disabled person I find I am not intentionally tripped anywhere near enough. I beseech Congress to act now before I become complacent in my verticality.
He [MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin] added that almost 60 countries use site-blocking as a tool against piracy, “including leading democracies and many of America’s closest allies.” The only reason why the US isn’t one of them, he continued, is the “lack of political will, paired with outdated understandings of what site-blocking actually is, how it functions, and who it affects.”
No, you’re the one who doesn’t understand. We don’t want censorship, and we have this thing called the 1st Amendment.
MPAA is the organization that took 2600 to court over linking to DeCSS source code. All they understand is money and power and so far is worked really well. This is an organization that literally inserted itself into our society. Remove them, by force if necessary.
Australia’s version is a dns block. It only stops people who don’t know how to google or change thier dns.
land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
When that song came out it hit 19yr old me HARD. I am now 51 and it still does.
Land of the free market not free people 🤓
Its not even a free market. Check the protectionism keeping Chinese EVs out of the US. Its more like the land of corporate profits.
There’s no such thing as a free market unless you’re talking about places like Somolia where there is no government.
That’s an unregulated market. It’s a bit counterintuitive, but an idealized free market would need to be free of price fixing and monopolization, and therefore requires regulation.
That’s what all these invisible hand folk always get wrong.
I agree 😇 free market leads to one big monopoly which decides anything for anyone. Regulation is needed all the time, as we saw (and see) with Microsoft and now with Apple, Amazon, Google etc.
free [?] market leads to one big monopoly
Unregulated market ≠ free market. That’s what I just explained. If you’d like a better understanding I’d highly recommend auditing econ 101 online through MIT: https://youtu.be/_OkTw766oCs?si=twyynoEzf-bi5k3m
It’s not a tough course, and it’s probably one that everybody should take anyways, TBH.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/_OkTw766oCs?si=twyynoEzf-bi5k3m
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Free Market is to economics what The American Dream is to immigrants and citizens.
Reality inevitably shines a harsh light on both.
VPNs are about to become a lot more commonplace.
Or that will be their first target
I2P stumbles out of bar drunk, my timesss has come!
Is it possible to access clearnet sites on I2P? (I haven’t used it before but I have heard of it.)
Theoretically possible but definitely not built for it.
Tor serves the clear net access problem.
I2P because of its design is a lot better suited for p2p file transfers, while maintaining anonymity.
Yes, check out outproxies
Not an easy target, since the technology/protocol is integral to many large businesses’ infosec operations.
You don’t have to ban VPNs. Just force everyone doing business in the US to keep logs and to comply with blocking websites via federal law (that will be dictated by the MPAA)
Boom. VPNs “banned”
Just use a foreign VPN (basically all trustworthy, privacy-focused VPN providers are located outside the US, e.g. Mullvad in Sweden, IVPN in Gibraltar or Proton VPN in Switzerland) and connect to an exit server outside the US
I mean, that’s not out of the realm of possibility of things going down that way, but good luck getting that passed and then enforcing that, especially internationally.
Also, I have to wonder if there’s an argument to be made about undue burden. But NAL, so dunno.
Well…any VPN provider that won’t comply would be blocked from doing business in the US.
Which you can bypass… with a vpn. Self fulfilling market offer.
Very common amerika L
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Why is this what we take from China, and not high speed rail (rhetorical)
“Our” firewall: fucked, if ever implemented. probably won’t ever be.
“Great Firewall of China”: massively fucked, already implemented.
Yours is a false equivalence. The only people suggesting it’s “good and just” are the MPA and other copyright trolls.
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Go back to reddit nerd.
Yep. Peak Hexbear moment
And of course, three more of them show up to dogpile the person responding
And chime in with “but muh tiktok.”
Anything to beat the horse that china > US.
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We’re gonna build a firewall, a big beautiful firewall.
The GFW blocks a lot more than just illegal movie sites
Isn’t that exactly what their point is?
Yes. Today piracy, tomorrow “subversive” content like unionization.
It may not be next President/Congress or the one after that. However there will be a President/Congress that decides to broaden the firewall to “protect us”.
Remember 45’s AG wanted to ban encryption?
No, however I can imagine the reason why.
I don’t get it
The least productive Congress since the Great Depression? The same Congress who couldn’t pass a budget for the government until 6 months into the very fiscal year it’s for? That Congress? Priorities.
What are you talking about? The current congress is incredibly effective. They just have way more important things to focus on then whatever you peasants are yammering about. Like banning tiktok.
We will need to use hidden networks like [email protected]
Maybe this will get i2p out of beta…
wait can you explain what this is/how it works? I’ve never heard of it before
Sure, i2p or the invisible internet project is a FOSS project which acts as an anonymous network anyone can potentially access, and host on.
It does this by creating end to end encrypted peer to peer tunnels between its users and then sending data through itself via a path between some of the 50,000+ volunteers that make up the project. The path data takes is random so a third party seeing any communication in full is highly unlikely, and even at that, its still encrypted.
The software that implements this is the i2p router, and when using the i2p router you become a node on the network like everyone else using it, allowing pieces of anyone’s data to move through your router, just as your data moves through theirs.
The UX/UI is very good for new users and makes it easy to access, or host. Particularly, to my understanding, i2p is also very popular for torrenting due to the nature of how it works (in comparison to similar projects such as tor, there is an entire built in solution for torrenting included with i2p).
thank you! do you have any resources for someone new to using i2p?
Isn’t this similar to tor, and slow af??
Similar in some ways different in others, actually surprisingly fast for what it does though and I find the user experience a lot nicer than tor.
Judging by the fact that most of congress doesn’t know how TikTok or WiFi work, I’m guessing it’s gonna be fine.
They may not know how it works, which is why it’s fucking dangerous that they are getting “consulted” by the MPA.
Best case scenario: it’s just a DNS level block.
Worst case scenario: it’s a DNS level log capture so that the MPA can sue people who watch things on fmovies or similar sites, like the RIAA did in the 90s.
DNS over HTTPS and use a DNS located in another country - problem solved
In Europe, these blocks are typically just IP bans, so secure DNS no helpy. You need a VPN or other proxy.
You can even bypass these blocks with a CDN like Cloudflare. They let you host a proxy for a website for free. Check out this guide https://champagne.pages.dev/non-piracy-stuff/proxy-websites/
land of the fee home of the grave
Ill say it one more time: Selfhost your shit
and I’m sure they’re paying them lots of money to do it because God forbid the rich assholes aren’t rich enough 🙄
Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I’m surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.
They’re not smart enough it figure out anything not mainstream. I heard most of the big sites blocked recently were live TV feed sites.
Any effect these measures may have will be easily circumvented by a VPN
We’ll make new sites! Fuckers.
Or hide our sites on hidden networks like [email protected]
Hiding on .world, the last place any sane person would look, genius
Mirrored on hexbear
How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?
Nope. Only punish. Only take. They can only ask for fear, they do not want our love, except through fear.
