Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

41 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by mmh0000
(arstechnica.com)

11 Comments

amanaplanacanal

8 hours ago

We should probably go the other way and make ISPs, and DNS and VPN providers common carriers.

mitxela

4 hours ago

This worked out so well in Spain that the ISPs are suing the government for it.

karlkloss

6 hours ago

I bet that the idea behind this is that they can block Chinese AI providers by claiming that they stole knowledge from US AI companies.

applfanboysbgon

8 hours ago

> Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups

This is really a free pass for anything, huh.

ChrisRR

an hour ago

People spending nothing funds terrorism

martheen

3 hours ago

"Think about the children" used to be their free pass until it no longer fit American values

mitxela

5 hours ago

Last 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

6 hours ago

Their 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.

watwut

5 hours ago

So like, the big companies already have their copies for ai training?

IslandRebel

3 hours ago

They 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.