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Lofgren's bill would impose site-blocking requirements on broadband providers with at least 100,000 subscribers and providers of public domain name resolution services with annual revenue of over $100 million. The bill has exemptions for VPN services and "similar services that encrypt and route user traffic through intermediary servers"; DNS providers that offer service "exclusively through encrypted DNS protocols"; and operators of premises that provide Internet access, like coffee shops, bookstores, airlines, and universities.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 150 points 5 months ago

Really uh...

Setting themselves up for success uh..

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 143 points 5 months ago

Democrats: "Please for the love of God, don't vote for us ever again! We really, really don't want to win."

[-] fafferlicious@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

D E M O C R A T singular, one. Not democrats. For fucks sake it's on the bloody title!

Why are people so willfully ignorant?

US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed ...

[-] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Cause people fail to awknowledge there is more to politics than just left and right, or progressive and conservative, etc.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

From California? Hmmm... Why would a representative from California put forward such a bill?

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 95 points 5 months ago

Trump is president and this is their priority?

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 5 months ago

Of course it is, what else would you expect from the controlled opposition party?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 5 months ago

Why wouldn't it be? People's interests don't bring in money

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 93 points 5 months ago

The country is being burned to the ground from the inside by fascists, and this is the hill Democrat politicians choose to die on?!! Holy shit! What a fucking joke!

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Corporate dictatorship masquerading as "democracy"

[-] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't think it's even corporate now. There are oligopolies/monopolies in each sector already

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 5 months ago

Lofgren is a corporate stooge is the message I'm getting.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 50 points 5 months ago

Democrats once again losing on purpose.

[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 47 points 5 months ago

This somehow reads with the same energy as those "please don't download scientific papers for free from , that would be so terrible" posts.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

77 year old who has been in the house since the 90s. Actually a prime example of why we need term limits and real competition in elections (if not from GOP, at least in primaries). Irony is she reps a district that isn't really associated with streaming or producing movies.

My guess? She won her primary because she was the incombent or was unopposed, but she probably receives cash from the film industry. Almost all house seats are uncompetitive unless someone drops out or gets redistricted. Until something changes, this is and will be the way our government continues to work.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

in power since the 90s

Oh so carrying the torch for the LAST time they tried to go after media with the moral panic of "Explicit" music label stuff led by Tipper Gore? The one where Twisted Sister showed up in 1985. A continuation from when they had a panic about VHS recordings in 1969 and Mr Rogers testified.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I specially went Obama over Clinton because she was still saying in 2008 how video games promote violence. There's a certain type of Dem, and they're still ramming them down our throats.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I swear. The harder they mess with this type of stuff the more single-issue-voters it pushes to vote against them. This war on media is such a losing battle I don't understand why they're opting to wage it with the current fish on the grill. This kind of unpopular legislation is stuff you try and push when you're in power, and try to sell it as an "eat your veggies" moment. Rebranding while they're down certainly makes for an interesting conversation when they rubber band back into power and say "we've said we were gonna do this since 2025" type conversation.

[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

Sometimes I feel like democrats don't actually care more about voters, they just care much more about appearances.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Idk man, that sounds like evidence based thinking to me, reported.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

And rich people

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

Even out of power they still find a way to give hand jobs for industry donations and casually screw the public. I admire their energy.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

Don't settle for half measures.

[-] neclimdul@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

"Man we really got trounced in that election "

"Yeah we should really work on our image"

"Yeah. Oh I know! You know how everyone hated that tik tok ban?"

"Yeah?"

"Well what if that, but more!"

"But people hated the ban...."

"Oh right, no, the movie industry is paying us to do this."

"Oh why didn't you just say so."

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

On the one hand, more Dems voted no on tiktok ban

On the other hand, you can bet any bipartisan bill is not in the interest of the American people

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

If they are not blocking the access to the WHO.is servers you can get the IP address of the site and add it to your local hosts file.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Doesn't the IP address change anyway?

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Some do and some don't. Even if the IP changes, the actual IP address will be shown on the WHOIS site. Alternatively, I am sure that the actual IP address of these sites is shared by non-American users on forums and other sites.

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[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago

oh cool, tackling the key issues facing us right now

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 22 points 5 months ago

Is the capability to block any website something the Democrats want to enable with for Trump to abuse?

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 5 months ago

Yes, then they can blame him for it but still get paid by the oligarchs who wanted the bill.

[-] tyrant@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Article 1) Streaming prices going up Article 2) websites being blocked

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago

invest in VPN providers

I'm guessing lofgren has already done that

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Wait until they start "the VPN wars". it's invariable at this point. Only the VPN that has bribed The Emperor the most will survive.

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

This is some dumb shit.

[-] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I'm missing the part where consumers are required to use their ISP DNS. I never do, in favour of CloudFlare DNS, Google DNS, etc

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Whoever wrote this bill probably lacks the basic network skills to know you can do that.

[-] quokka1@mastodon.au 1 points 5 months ago

@SquiffSquiff @some_guy They do that here to some degree. ISP's DNS give a shitty warning about pirating if you try to visit any of the normal places for that kind of thing. Personally i just use a local DNS over HTTPS server. Which reminds me I need to see if he/she would like a donation.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

its uh, definitely one of the feelings of all time reading through threads like this, assuming these are actual real people, spending their actually real time, talking about these actually real things.

[-] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

This is some fascist (& not at all surprising) shit.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Fuck. How bad is this...??

Is this going to take out VPNs as well?

[-] michaelc@social.rootaccess.org 5 points 5 months ago

@some_guy is there such a thing as an open source dns and encrypted DNS? Or federated DNS?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago
[-] Tanoh@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It sort if have to be. In the end there has to be one source of truth for each TLD, otherwise who is to say who owns foo.com, and what it resolves to?

And then the same structure for assigning TLD ownership.

But there is nothing stopping you from running another DNS service, call it DNS2 with different root servers, etc. It is just going to be extemely hard to convince people to use it.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

They're absolutely is, it's called onion routing, get around DNS blocks with tor as long as you know where you're going.

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So it help vpn stocks?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Okay.... And that helps anyone how? Where's the other foot? I would like to help? I have a sledge hammer! C'mon don't be shy.

But, I got ideas! How about everyone who files for a patent has to give the Democratic party all their money or how autocorrect wants, all their monkey! That'll show them!

And how about everyone who goes to and graduates from college must serve a 30 year sentence? Fabulous!

Need a car license? Just smash your car on this steel wall! Yey! So easy! So much better than racists!

WTF! Put the thinking cap back on dudes!

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