U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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The Block BEARD bill broadly applies to service providers as defined in section 512(k)(1)(A) of the DMCA. This is a broad definition that applies to residential ISPs, but also to search engines, social media platforms, and DNS resolvers.

Service providers with fewer than 50,000 subscribers are explicitly excluded

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[-] sommerset@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 days ago

Whenever there is some bipartisan bill happening it's always about money

[-] tfowinder@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

Ah The land of the free where government is free to do whatever it wants.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Government small enough to fit in your bedroom, your uterus, your blood.

[-] Mordikan@kbin.earth 62 points 3 days ago

I bet they spent more time working on making a cool sounding acronym than they did actually writing the bill. If this actually passed, it would do nothing except encourage people to use an out of geo VPN, I2P, or non-US DNS server.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago

What worries me about it is how it applies very broadly, so it would mean stuff like the reddit piracy megathread could be prohibited, and make it actually more difficult for people to find or discuss places to safely pirate things

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago

just means they push it to the hidden layers (signal). its stupid of them. they're just making it harder to manage.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Maybe GeminiSpace becomes the high seas info go to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

[-] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I don't see it. More probable is moving to i2p and onion adresses.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is an interesting rabbit hole

I tried hitting tilded up black and Gemini space but I'm not seeing watching the way of sites that answer.

Most of the stuff in search isn't working either.

*edit for those trying this, use the search, go home, then click known hosts, there's a LOAD of sites, 80% or so work.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago

Bear in mind that the people coming up with this stuff are not completely stupid. Completely corrupt and ignorant perhaps, but not so inept that if they write legislation that strongly encourages practically everyone to use a VPN to avoid the bullshit it isn't a good possibility that their aim (or the aim of those manipulating them) is to generate excuses to eventually make easy-to-use commercial VPN services illegal. Obviously many of us could get around such a ban with ease, but the more difficult they make it the fewer people will do it. There are reasons why not every kid on your average street is an I2P user. What they can't effectively ban they'll suppress by other means.

[-] artifex@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago

There will be a follow up bill called Act to Mandate Aggressive Zero-Exception Bans on Anonymous Login & Secure Networks that makes VPNs, TOR, etc illegal. I think they’re working on it in the UK already.

[-] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

AMAZEBALSN?

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago

a) blackburn is the sponsor of kosa who admitted the primary reason was to go after lgbtq spaces b) schiff is garbage c) blocking piracy sites isn't going to make us buy movies and subscribe to steaming services