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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/republican-bill-would-order-isps-dns-providers-and-vpns-to-block-piracy-sites/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica I guess that would include blocking all AI sites given they have stolen all our data. Nothing but pirates.
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Considering how poor they are on cybersecurity, this looks like smoke and mirrors.
@arstechnica I'm not sure how you enforce that on VPN providers who are based outside the US. Also, maybe we have more important things to focus on? *waves hands excitedly pointing at EVERYTHING*
@arstechnica No, the bill would help corporations lock down our culture and memories even tighter. They will absolutely use this to shut down anybody and everybody they don't like, just like the DMCA.
And our government can't be trusted to be the arbiters anymore because they will absolutely allow Right Wing terrorists to operate right in the open and use this law as an excuse to censor other content.
@arstechnica huh
I'm sure this will work exactly as intended and won't have any negative consequences
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@arstechnica soooooo running a bind server on a local network would fully bypass this?
They so have no idea what they are talking about, it's kind of hilarious.