cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10026267
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10026266
The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed new customer verification requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers. The goal of the ‘Know Your Customer’ regime is to prevent fraud and abuse, including piracy. In response to this plan, prominent rightsholders want the department to expand the proposal’s scope to include domain name registrars and registries. Ideally, they argue, domain companies should also be required to take down pirate domains.
They just want private Corporate Gestapo. Which is totally better than Government run Gestapo. Private “Corporations” always make the right choices.
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Nothing screams freedom like the surveillance of everyone’s communications by a faceless secret police because terrorism and pedophilia ((exist)) — nevermind that the secret police are often the ones engaging in terrorism and pedophilia.
Don’t worry, though. Surveillance capitalism is the one true arbiter or morality and ethics. It’s not like capitalism has ever profited from murder, authoritarianism, or oppression… unless you’re black, or brown, or poor, or female, or atheist, or a worker… filthy commoners.
They spelled CEOs wrong.
ENS, unstoppable domains, tor, i2p, ipfs… I think this is actually good for the Internet, it will normalize and popularize private, censorship resistant tech. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Just can’t imagine how these people don’t see their actions promote greater use of encryption
I think you might have double posted by accident 🥴
“rightsholders” lol. Gotta love the Orwellian language.
Would this affect PorkBun if it were to be implemented?
Porkbun is based in Oregon, so presumably yes.
ENS, unstoppable domains, tor, i2p, ipfs… I think this is actually good for the Internet, it will normalize and popularize private, censorship resistant tech. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
