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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

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Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

#11

Amazing. These kind of bills / laws are being passed left and right "recently".

Both major parties are corpo-authoritarian, with the main dynamics of elections being to gauge how much the public is willing to accept and to make half the people think they actually wanted the resulting policies. And for this round the people have spoken that they want it good and hard.

Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

#16

I wonder if with all of these attacks on international Internet freedoms we'll eventually have a resurgence of usage of technology like Tor, etc.

landlines and snail mail. Not that those things can't be tracked/tapped either, but it is more work. Pay cash for stuff.

Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

#17
I've recently switched to privacy respecting computing options, so of course lost access to everything I've bought from Apple and Amazon for the last 20 years.

If I never paid for content again they'd still be in my debt.

You wouldn't steal a car would you? No, but I'd repossess one from some delinquent son of a bitch in a suit.

Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

#18

Amazing. These kind of bills / laws are being passed left and right "recently".

Both major parties are corpo-authoritarian, with the main dynamics of elections being to gauge how much the public is willing to accept and to make half the people think they actually wanted the resulting policies. And for this round the people have spoken that they want it good and hard.

I have a feeling the public is going to be willing to accept a lot of things.

Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

#19

Amazing. These kind of bills / laws are being passed left and right "recently".

Both major parties are corpo-authoritarian, with the main dynamics of elections being to gauge how much the public is willing to accept and to make half the people think they actually wanted the resulting policies. And for this round the people have spoken that they want it good and hard.

>corpo-authoritarian

"corporate fascist"

Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

#20

Amazing. These kind of bills / laws are being passed left and right "recently".

Both major parties are corpo-authoritarian, with the main dynamics of elections being to gauge how much the public is willing to accept and to make half the people think they actually wanted the resulting policies. And for this round the people have spoken that they want it good and hard.

I don’t think they care about the policy. They just see a one sided debate: companies will to pay and an indifferent public.
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