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Is the government so inept that it can’t do it’s policing itself? Why are search companies being forced to police the internet for the police? If there was a bu

Is the government so inept that it can’t do it’s policing itself? Why are search companies being forced to police the internet for the police? If there was a business down the street doing illegal gambling, I would not say “hey let’s just stop buses from taking people there.” Hell no. Any decent police would go stop that business from operating, not go to the bus companies taking people there.

wmf 6y ago
There was massive online opposition to that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
- schoen 6y ago
  You could argue that SOPA and PIPA were more like "stopping the buses from taking people there", although these analogies are rarely exact.
CWuestefeld 6y ago
"illegal" means different things regionally. One locale's legal content is considered elsewhere in another. We don't all want to be bound by China's laws. And even in America, most laws are at the state level (e.g., ads for marijuana are OK in much of the country, but definitely not for Texas), so we wouldn't even want to resort to "American" standards.
michaelmrose 6y ago
People can run both VPN services and pirate websites which merely index torrents in jurisdictions that wont stop such. Then when bob shares files with sue over their respective torrent clients all their packets travel overseas before reaching each other. These tools aren't harder for end users to use than netflix or Hulu. VPN services tend to provide a gui app with a big ol button that says connect and a tray icon that turns from red to green. They pretty much have to be content with trying to keep the bus from going there because its all they have. The smarter plan is still continuing to make Netflix and Steam awesome so people don't want to bother to pirate.

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Is the government so inept that it can’t do it’s policing itself? Why are search companies being forced to police the internet for the police? If there was a bu

by smaryjerry 6y ago

wmf 6y ago
There was massive online opposition to that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
- schoen 6y ago
  You could argue that SOPA and PIPA were more like "stopping the buses from taking people there", although these analogies are rarely exact.
CWuestefeld 6y ago
"illegal" means different things regionally. One locale's legal content is considered elsewhere in another. We don't all want to be bound by China's laws. And even in America, most laws are at the state level (e.g., ads for marijuana are OK in much of the country, but definitely not for Texas), so we wouldn't even want to resort to "American" standards.
michaelmrose 6y ago
People can run both VPN services and pirate websites which merely index torrents in jurisdictions that wont stop such. Then when bob shares files with sue over their respective torrent clients all their packets travel overseas before reaching each other. These tools aren't harder for end users to use than netflix or Hulu. VPN services tend to provide a gui app with a big ol button that says connect and a tray icon that turns from red to green. They pretty much have to be content with trying to keep the bus from going there because its all they have. The smarter plan is still continuing to make Netflix and Steam awesome so people don't want to bother to pirate.