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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.

Invest in VPN providers.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 153 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really uh...

Setting themselves up for success uh..

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Great to see our representatives finally focusing on the real issues in these difficult times.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 147 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Lemmy: "Fuck that, I'll vote blue no matter who. You can't tell me what to do"

Democrats:

[–] fafferlicious@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 8 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 99 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump is president and this is their priority?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 98 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Corporate dictatorship masquerading as "democracy"

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

The shepherd and the dog might be in agreement.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 52 points 1 month ago

Democrats once again losing on purpose.

[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 50 points 1 month 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 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

And rich people

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month 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 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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 1 month 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 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

oh cool, tackling the key issues facing us right now

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These people were everyone's hope? LMAO 🤣

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

This is some dumb shit.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

invest in VPN providers

I'm guessing lofgren has already done that

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cockroaches using the government to make oppressive laws. I think I'm still ancap.

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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.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] michaelc@social.rootaccess.org 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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.

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