I bet they spent more time working on making a cool sounding acronym than they did actually writing the bill. If this actually passed, it would do nothing except encourage people to use an out of geo VPN, I2P, or non-US DNS server.

a) blackburn is the sponsor of kosa who admitted the primary reason was to go after lgbtq spaces b) schiff is garbage c) blocking piracy sites isn't going to make us buy movies and subscribe to steaming services

Whenever there is some bipartisan bill happening it's always about money

Ah The land of the free where government is free to do whatever it wants.

Senators working for corporations and doing their bidding, not real issues that affect the people like healthcare, high food, gas and housing cost.

Now how will AI corporations feed their slop making machines with cheap data?

Governments are hardcore trying to control everything right now

The site-blocking proposal seeks to amend U.S. copyright law, enabling rightsholders to request federal courts to designate online locations as a “foreign digital piracy site”. If that succeeds, courts can subsequently order U.S. service providers to block access to these sites.

Pirate site designation would be dependent on rightsholders showing that they are harmed by a site’s activities, that reasonable efforts had been made to notify the site’s operator, and that a reasonable investigation confirms the operator is not located within the United States.

Additionally, rightsholders must show that the site is primarily designed for piracy, has limited commercial purpose, or is intentionally marketed by its operator to promote copyright-infringing activities.

The vague definitions are scary. Could be argued to apply to almost anything including VPNs.

Good luck blocking all of usenet.

Yeah, there are ways around this.

I'm just tired.