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I wonder if there would be any issue with creating a service for identifying Congress members (by IP or browser identity or something) to perpetually block them

I wonder if there would be any issue with creating a service for identifying Congress members (by IP or browser identity or something) to perpetually block them from accessing sites we would consider to be important. There's a danger in having news media block our representatives, but I wonder if being cut off from everything but Fox News would ultimately wake them up. We don't have to include them if they want to let Comcast and others restrict the web. Black out Wikipedia, Reddit, Facebook, Netflix.. Do not serve them - because they are not serving us. If they learn to get around this - well then they'll be more informed anyway. It would be more hilarious to see Comcast come out with its own VPN service to help them get back "online".

JustSomeNobody 9y ago
Our members of Congress don't access anything on the internet. They have people do it for them. Otherwise they may actually be tech-savvy enough to understand the implications of their choices.
FilterSweep 9y ago
Perhaps you could regionally serve up different content or throttle performance by the techniques you said.
w0rd-driven 9y ago
I feel like the last ditch effort is to go a step further. This may not be actually possible but if we could identify the leaders of the companies and people in the government that are for a restricted internet, blacking out their access as a form of ransom may be the only thing that works. We're to the point of dealing with seemingly hostile entities and the passive, yet legal approaches are clearly not working at all. We're dealing with people that are either too ignorant or too complacent to see what a colossal fuck up this is and it's possible even spelling out the entirety of the impending disaster isn't enough to get them to do the right thing.

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I wonder if there would be any issue with creating a service for identifying Congress members (by IP or browser identity or something) to perpetually block them

by blitmap 9y ago

JustSomeNobody 9y ago
Our members of Congress don't access anything on the internet. They have people do it for them. Otherwise they may actually be tech-savvy enough to understand the implications of their choices.
FilterSweep 9y ago
Perhaps you could regionally serve up different content or throttle performance by the techniques you said.
w0rd-driven 9y ago
I feel like the last ditch effort is to go a step further. This may not be actually possible but if we could identify the leaders of the companies and people in the government that are for a restricted internet, blacking out their access as a form of ransom may be the only thing that works. We're to the point of dealing with seemingly hostile entities and the passive, yet legal approaches are clearly not working at all. We're dealing with people that are either too ignorant or too complacent to see what a colossal fuck up this is and it's possible even spelling out the entirety of the impending disaster isn't enough to get them to do the right thing.