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

51 points by mmh0000 2 days ago | 11 comments | View on ycombinator

applfanboysbgon 2 days ago |

> Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups

This is really a free pass for anything, huh.

amanaplanacanal 2 days ago |

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

karlkloss 2 days ago |

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.

mitxela 2 days ago |

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

sharts 1 day ago |

So they want bigger government with more regulation?

IslandRebel 2 days ago |

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.

watwut 2 days ago |

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

antibull 2 days ago |

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