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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
- amanaplanacanal 17d agoWe should probably go the other way and make ISPs, and DNS and VPN providers common carriers.
- applfanboysbgon 17d ago> Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups This is really a free pass for anything, huh.
- mitxela 17d agoLast week they shut down a free email host of 25 years by saying it supported terrorist groups and therefore it was illegal for them to use banks.
- pixel_popping 17d agoTheir take is so dumb, and what about the legal businesses that fund terrorism at scale? Let's ban restaurants? And no, money from legal incomes is not "more traceable" once it's made into cash and sent away the exact same way as illicit funds. All BS.
- martheen 17d ago"Think about the children" used to be their free pass until it no longer fit American values
- ChrisRR 17d agoPeople spending nothing funds terrorism
- marysol5 13d agoIt's been a claim for a long time. They used to claim that in the UK with people selling DVD's in pubs.
- antibull 17d ago[dead]
- karlkloss 17d agoI bet that the idea behind this is that they can block Chinese AI providers by claiming that they stole knowledge from US AI companies.
- watwut 17d agoSo like, the big companies already have their copies for ai training?
- mitxela 17d agoThis worked out so well in Spain that the ISPs are suing the government for it.
- IslandRebel 17d agoThey tired this in the UK. I can get to a mirror of any pirate site without issue without a VPN. It ends up being a game of whackamole.
- sharts 16d agoSo they want bigger government with more regulation?