Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

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.

[tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world]

Really uh...

Setting themselves up for success uh..

[droporain@lemmynsfw.com]

Shit birds. Hail the all important corporation. The line must move up. Hail the line.

[fmt99@lemmy.world]

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

[heckgazer@programming.dev]

This somehow reads with the same energy as those "please don't download scientific papers for free from <long list of websites>, that would be so terrible" posts.

[shoulderoforion@fedia.io]

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

[harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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

[michaelc@social.rootaccess.org]

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

[ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

oh cool, tackling the key issues facing us right now

[badbytes@lemmy.world]

Just what we needed.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

It's actually surprisingly centralized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Structure

[tyrant@lemmy.world]

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

[asafum@feddit.nl]

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

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

invest in VPN providers

I'm guessing lofgren has already done that

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

They're absolutely is, it's called onion routing, get around DNS blocks with tor as long as you know where you're going.

[brkdncr@lemmy.world]

This is some dumb shit.

[thepowerofgeek@lemmy.world]

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!

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

I use a self hosted pihole for DNS. It needs an upstream DNS server for resolving unchached dns's. I have pihole point to quad9 then cloudflair then google then I have it point to a bunch of unfiltered DNS servers across the world.

[tanoh@lemmy.world]

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.

[gaael@lemmy.world]

We already have site blocking in France.