Lofgren’s bill would impose site-blocking requirements on broadband providers with at least 100,000 subscribers and providers of public domain name resolution services with annual revenue of over $100 million. The bill has exemptions for VPN services and “similar services that encrypt and route user traffic through intermediary servers”; DNS providers that offer service “exclusively through encrypted DNS protocols”; and operators of premises that provide Internet access, like coffee shops, bookstores, airlines, and universities.
Invest in VPN providers.
Why would you not quote the first paragraph that explains everything about the law?
US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed a law that would let copyright owners obtain court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to foreign piracy websites. The bill would also force DNS providers to block sites.
TBH it’s not that bad since it doesn’t affect VPNs or domestic piracy sites, ironically. It’s bad but it’s not the apocalypse like some other commenters suggest.
Just a step in the direction towards that, though. They’ll pass it, and people will still pirate. Then, they’ll claim the legislation wasn’t enough and pass another bill further encroaching on our freedom on the internet.
Maybe, but for now she doesn’t have a single co-sponsor. LINK TO THE BILL
The fact that this dumb bitch is trying to do this, a blatant violation of open internet ideas btw, as the technocracy makes its opening moves is the real problem.
Trump is president and this is their priority?
Why wouldn’t it be? People’s interests don’t bring in money
Of course it is, what else would you expect from the controlled opposition party?
So it help vpn stocks?
Democrats: “Please for the love of God, don’t vote for us ever again! We really, really don’t want to win.”
Lemmy: "Fuck that, I’ll vote blue no matter who. You can’t tell me what to do"
Democrats:
D E M O C R A T singular, one. Not democrats. For fucks sake it’s on the bloody title!
Why are people so willfully ignorant?
US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed …
Cause people fail to awknowledge there is more to politics than just left and right, or progressive and conservative, etc.
@some_guy is there such a thing as an open source dns and encrypted DNS? Or federated DNS?
I use a self hosted pihole for DNS. It needs an upstream DNS server for resolving unchached dns’s. I have pihole point to quad9 then cloudflair then google then I have it point to a bunch of unfiltered DNS servers across the world.
Pihole also let’s you install unbound. Your own recursive resolver. So you don’t have to rely on google or quad9 etc.
Cool I might do that. I assume I can find a docker compose somewhere.
It’s actually surprisingly centralized.
It sort if have to be. In the end there has to be one source of truth for each TLD, otherwise who is to say who owns foo.com, and what it resolves to?
And then the same structure for assigning TLD ownership.
But there is nothing stopping you from running another DNS service, call it DNS2 with different root servers, etc. It is just going to be extemely hard to convince people to use it.
They’re absolutely is, it’s called onion routing, get around DNS blocks with tor as long as you know where you’re going.
Really uh…
Setting themselves up for success uh…
Shit birds. Hail the all important corporation. The line must move up. Hail the line.
Great to see our representatives finally focusing on the real issues in these difficult times.
TBH they can’t really pass anything even if they wanted to focus on more important issues. Majority Leaders call votes and they’re both Republicans.
The country is being burned to the ground from the inside by fascists, and this is the hill Democrat politicians choose to die on?!! Holy shit! What a fucking joke!
Corporate dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”
I don’t think it’s even corporate now. There are oligopolies/monopolies in each sector already
The shepherd and the dog might be in agreement.
Lofgren is a corporate stooge is the message I’m getting.
Democrats: why won’t anyone vote for us?
Also Democrats: let’s be like the Republicans, they get so many votes! Let’s miss the entire point of democracy and just support large companies!
Because they want the big money donors more than they want to win. Their campaigns are above all designed to bring in money for the high-priced consultants.
This somehow reads with the same energy as those “please don’t download scientific papers for free from <long list of websites>, that would be so terrible” posts.
Democrats once again losing on purpose.
77 year old who has been in the house since the 90s. Actually a prime example of why we need term limits and real competition in elections (if not from GOP, at least in primaries). Irony is she reps a district that isn’t really associated with streaming or producing movies.
My guess? She won her primary because she was the incombent or was unopposed, but she probably receives cash from the film industry. Almost all house seats are uncompetitive unless someone drops out or gets redistricted. Until something changes, this is and will be the way our government continues to work.
in power since the 90s
Oh so carrying the torch for the LAST time they tried to go after media with the moral panic of “Explicit” music label stuff led by Tipper Gore? The one where Twisted Sister showed up in 1985. A continuation from when they had a panic about VHS recordings in 1969 and Mr Rogers testified.
I specially went Obama over Clinton because she was still saying in 2008 how video games promote violence. There’s a certain type of Dem, and they’re still ramming them down our throats.
I swear. The harder they mess with this type of stuff the more single-issue-voters it pushes to vote against them. This war on media is such a losing battle I don’t understand why they’re opting to wage it with the current fish on the grill. This kind of unpopular legislation is stuff you try and push when you’re in power, and try to sell it as an “eat your veggies” moment. Rebranding while they’re down certainly makes for an interesting conversation when they rubber band back into power and say “we’ve said we were gonna do this since 2025” type conversation.
Even out of power they still find a way to give hand jobs for industry donations and casually screw the public. I admire their energy.
If they are not blocking the access to the WHO.is servers you can get the IP address of the site and add it to your local hosts file.
Doesn’t the IP address change anyway?
Some do and some don’t. Even if the IP changes, the actual IP address will be shown on the WHOIS site. Alternatively, I am sure that the actual IP address of these sites is shared by non-American users on forums and other sites.
After the US does this, Europe will be soon to follow guaranteed, then everyone will be trying to pipe through the same VPN exit server in Barbados
We already have site blocking in France.
