Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (arstechnica.com)

2 points by mmh0000 8h ago ↗ HN

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

> Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups

This is really a free pass for anything, huh.

Their take is so dumb, and what about the legal businesses that fund terrorism at scale? Let's ban restaurants?

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.

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

[dead] antibull 6h ago ↗

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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.

watwut 3h ago ↗

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

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

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.