Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

[zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com]

I don't consider it valid so long as conscription exists, but now it's an utter joke

[petter1@lemm.ee]

People there have chosen that by voting republican. I mean, he told what he planned to do and got voted for anyway..

Freedom, but only for rich, white douchebags

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

From a Sony legal perspective, yes.

When Big Brother decides to force ISPs to tamp it down, they'll do stuff like set limits on unidentifiable traffic, set caps just above reasonable streaming levels.

When there's no freedom of speech, no right to be innocent, you can tell who's torrenting, especially if you don't have to be 100% right to kick them off your network.

[eddbopkins@lemmy.world]

That doesn't sound like a free market to me.

[wanderingmagus@lemm.ee]

How about forming end to end encrypted wireless ad hoc networks?

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Meshes are powerful. They're great at the community level, but scale is an issue.

With the low price of very large thumb drives these days, sneakernet would work.

It would be interesting to see something DHT like IPFS overhauled to work on intermittent mesh networks.

Maybe something in between IPFS and SoulSeek. You keep a list of what you want, when someone comes on line with it you get it, or perhaps we all set aside a couple hundred gigs to fulfill requests.

[tiddy@sh.itjust.works]

They're american, they'd just pick one rich guy to 'own' all Foss projects and make it freenium within a year

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

Good luck with that too, especially as GPL3 has a clause specifically forbidding tivoization built into it.

[tiddy@sh.itjust.works]

Til a judge 'interprets' that as being specifically about a company named TiVo or invalidates it in the supreme court.

Yk back in my day it was even unthinkable to have a president decide your gender for you, the precedent already being created is insane.

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

The series of tubes is actually a better analogy than what this Bill imagines the internet to be.