Ooops comments on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

which under an authoritarian regime can be torture in prison or being summarily executed or dissapeared

The finer point is that you are still thinking in terms of authoritarian regimes ruling by force or intimidation. You don't need to if you can direct the opinion of 90%+ of the population via methods totally unfit to do what they claim they are employed for.

For some very strange reason you seem to be under the impression that I downplay this massive insane censorship measure they try to enact with this bill. I'm not. Quite the contrary I am telling you very plainly that it's inefficient FOR WHAT THEY CLAIM THE GOAL IS. Because they are lying.

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 6 days ago*

you are still thinking in terms of authoritarian regimes ruling by force or intimidation. You don't need to if you can direct the opinion of 90%+ of the population

I'm thinking like that because such regimes are always established and maintained through violence. Indimidation is much cheaper, faster and more attainable than convincing 90% of people – which is never going to happen btw, that's a super high bar. It's also unnecessary, you can win elections in the US with 28% of the registered votes IIRC.

it's inefficient FOR WHAT THEY CLAIM THE GOAL IS. Because they are lying.

Let me ask you, does it really matter if people don't circumvent blocks because they can't (because the block is effective) or because they won't (because they fear the consequences)? Either way they're doing what the regime wants.

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