What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations' best interest for us to not see?
Why is this what we take from China, and not high speed rail (rhetorical)
Great Firewall but for fascism (everything except Mr Beast is blocked)
"Our" firewall: fucked, if ever implemented. probably won't ever be.
“Great Firewall of China”: massively fucked, already implemented.
Yours is a false equivalence. The only people suggesting it's "good and just" are the MPA and other copyright trolls.
He [MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin] added that almost 60 countries use site-blocking as a tool against piracy, "including leading democracies and many of America's closest allies." The only reason why the US isn't one of them, he continued, is the "lack of political will, paired with outdated understandings of what site-blocking actually is, how it functions, and who it affects."
No, you're the one who doesn't understand. We don't want censorship, and we have this thing called the 1st Amendment.
Judging by the fact that most of congress doesn’t know how TikTok or WiFi work, I’m guessing it’s gonna be fine.
They may not know how it works, which is why it's fucking dangerous that they are getting "consulted" by the MPA.
Best case scenario: it's just a DNS level block.
Worst case scenario: it's a DNS level log capture so that the MPA can sue people who watch things on fmovies or similar sites, like the RIAA did in the 90s.
DNS over HTTPS and use a DNS located in another country - problem solved
In Europe, these blocks are typically just IP bans, so secure DNS no helpy. You need a VPN or other proxy.
You can even bypass these blocks with a CDN like Cloudflare. They let you host a proxy for a website for free. Check out this guide https://champagne.pages.dev/non-piracy-stuff/proxy-websites/
We will need to use hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world
Similar in some ways different in others, actually surprisingly fast for what it does though and I find the user experience a lot nicer than tor.
average us congressman is just the boomer version of some reddit nerd bitching and moaning about how not giving a corporation a few dollars is basically the same as killing a baby
Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I'm surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.
Any effect these measures may have will be easily circumvented by a VPN
How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?
Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.
you could always engage in something like i2p. Less shit to be found there, but a pretty neat little place on the internet.
