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Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites
www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/federal-bill-would-force-vpn-providers-isps-and-dns-services-to-block-foreign-piracy-sites-yet-fuzzy-location-rules-could-trigger-heavy-handed-bans
Replying to @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club
political theater. won’t happen because it’s unenforceable.
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.
Replying to @GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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”.
