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.
Really uh…
Setting themselves up for success uh…
Great to see our representatives finally focusing on the real issues in these difficult times.
TBH they can’t really pass anything even if they wanted to focus on more important issues. Majority Leaders call votes and they’re both Republicans.
In a democracy, when you’re not in power what do you do to get that power back? You show the electorate that you’re fighting for what they think is important. If Democrats absolutely insist on business as usual, promoting corporate interests and occasionally pausing to shout “fascist” at Trump, all the while just plain ignoring people’s actual concerns we’re going to lose the next election and the next one.
Democrat*
Singular, in this case.
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Democrats: “Please for the love of God, don’t vote for us ever again! We really, really don’t want to win.”
Lemmy: "Fuck that, I’ll vote blue no matter who. You can’t tell me what to do"
Democrats:
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 …
Cause people fail to awknowledge there is more to politics than just left and right, or progressive and conservative, etc.
From California? Hmmm… Why would a representative from California put forward such a bill?
Trump is president and this is their priority?
Of course it is, what else would you expect from the controlled opposition party?
Why wouldn’t it be? People’s interests don’t bring in money
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!
Corporate dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”
I don’t think it’s even corporate now. There are oligopolies/monopolies in each sector already
The shepherd and the dog might be in agreement.
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!
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.
Lofgren is a corporate stooge is the message I’m getting.
Democrats once again losing on purpose.
This somehow reads with the same energy as those “please don’t download scientific papers for free from <long list of websites>, that would be so terrible” posts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes I feel like democrats don’t actually care more about voters, they just care much more about appearances.
Idk man, that sounds like evidence based thinking to me, reported.
And rich people
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.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Don’t settle for half measures.
"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.”
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
Doesn’t the IP address change anyway?
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.
Just use a VPN service at that point. VPNs also have the upside of your ISP not being able to see you visiting piracy websites.
After the US does this, Europe will be soon to follow guaranteed, then everyone will be trying to pipe through the same VPN exit server in Barbados
We already have site blocking in France.
