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.

Invest in VPN providers.

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

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    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.

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    Why would you not quote the first paragraph that explains everything about the law?

    US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed a law that would let copyright owners obtain court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to foreign piracy websites. The bill would also force DNS providers to block sites.

    TBH it’s not that bad since it doesn’t affect VPNs or domestic piracy sites, ironically. It’s bad but it’s not the apocalypse like some other commenters suggest.

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      Just a step in the direction towards that, though. They’ll pass it, and people will still pirate. Then, they’ll claim the legislation wasn’t enough and pass another bill further encroaching on our freedom on the internet.

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    Democrats: why won’t anyone vote for us?

    Also Democrats: let’s be like the Republicans, they get so many votes! Let’s miss the entire point of democracy and just support large companies!

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      Because they want the big money donors more than they want to win. Their campaigns are above all designed to bring in money for the high-priced consultants.

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    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.

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    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!