Literally every single large AI provider admits to committing large scale piracy. No congressional response.

Some members of the public are watching HBO shows because they're poor? FULL FORCE OF THE LAW

Ahhhh, there comes the american own great firewall, fantastic...

Wonder if we will suddenly see this same bullshit pop up in all the pro age verification countries now or a tad later to make it less obvious.

Good news for fascists since it means there will be an easy way to force ISPs to block all "unlawful" content like Wikipedia or any other site that gives educational information to refute their current agendas or reflects opposing opinions that they consider "alternative facts".

Sooner everything moves to something like i2p the better, there's no reason to be using the clearnet imo.

It's just a safer way of doing things and eventually things will be driven that direction anyway.

After 30 years of playing whack-a-mole with piracy sites, this time it will surely help.

Haven't other countries tried DNS level site blocking, and it's very easy to get around? Does it even make any difference? The strategy of ISP copyright letters has already trained Americans to use VPNs for this, it seems like the only difference will be that I will have to turn my VPN on before searching for torrents instead of just before actually opening my torrent client

So how would this work theoretically? People in the states would just be prohibited from accessing certain sites and Google would remove them from results of searchs?

Its crazy how well the foot in the door technique works.

We need French people in the US to teach them how to burn down government buildings

God forbid we do the other thing where reasonably priced and accessible media are made available for purchase without an infinite copyright glitch.

So more vpn

So the USA is planning a Great Firewall, much like a certain other country that we claim “lacks freedom.” If I didn’t know any better, I might think that my government was self-serving, hypocritical, and corrupt, but that’s impossible. We’re the freest nation in the history of the world.

Yeah that'll stop 'em!

They could just provide cheap high quality streaming services to end piracy, but instead they want to provide garbage multi-tier advertising enabled massively fractured streaming service and force people to subscribe by playing a lamesauce game of pirate whack-a-mole.

Worrisome

Supreme Court opinion, the majority’s decision “permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants one without fear of liability and without lifting a finger to prevent infringement.”

Yes. That's how that works. That's how it's supposed to work. We do not want ISPs to be liable for what happens on the Internet because they run the roads.

I'd be willing to accept an argument that ISPs are providing critical infrastructure and therefore should be nationalized in a similar way to Switzerland, but until that happens, they shouldn't have any say whatsoever in who or what content gets to be online. The moment you require that of them is the moment that everyone's traffic will be inspected and judged according to someone else's sense of morality.

Want some proof of how this can go horribly wrong? Put me in charge of DNS at one of the big ISPs for a month. They don't get to overrule my decisions! I'll make sure every conservative website, every politician that supports legislation like this, and every big company that supports it will fail to resolve.

In fact, I might go even further and redirect Netflix, Hulu, and all other streaming sites to pirate equivalents just to make the point. Hopefully, forever.

What would be wrong with that? Clearly, my moral decisions are the right ones! Don't like it? Take it up with the legal framework bills like this have put into place to protect victims of such abuse: Spend a few million litigating for your rights!

Oh yeah, Russian playbok completely, lol. In Russia they begun their censorship with a premise of fighting piracy.

In fact they pioneered the toolset to prohibit any webpage they don't like.

It took only a couple of years before political opposition websites became illegal

And now look at them - Actual Whitelist internet. (If you don't know what whitelist is - they only allow you to visit certain webpages, and block all other traffic, and this is not the exaggeration, it happens right now).