xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

SOPA's back and 10 times worse!

For those who don't remember The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a proposed U.S. congressional bill from 2011 that would have brought censorship and site blocking to the United States. It was defeated, but since then the entertainment cartels have gotten similar bills passed in other countries. These bills undermine free speech and democracy.

Now the cartels are at it again with a number of new bills in the United States with even more rigor.

One of these new U.S. site blocking bills adds VPNs to the list of blocking intermediaries.

Now it appears the bill is very specific to virtual private networks and does not explicitly include SOCKS proxies, Tor, or other generic proxy services. That does then beg the question though of why bother? If it's not all inclusive it won't work. It also won't work against non-US jurisdiction based VPN operators. That also means it undermines the VPN operators which are based out of the United States.

How effective can this VPN specific section be? Not very, but there ends up being real harm.

It also still has serious implications for democracy in America if censorship and site blocks are permitted.

I will be the first to argue we've already headed down that dangerous path with the US "justice department" seizing domain names. There is this concept in law known as prior restraint. They're not support to censor speech before it occurs and they certainly shouldn't be taking away someone's ability to speak even if they seize the servers themselves.

Have you written your congress critter yet? I have and I'll write the evil **** again and again and hope for independence for New Hampshire and a collapse of the US. Governments that censor should collapse.

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-site-blocking-bill-adds-vpns-to-the-list-of-blocking/

"Bro, we're working on EA, give us some time bro, it's so hard"
Meanwhile in the PS2 realm:

#Android has different emojis for snowboarders based on ethnicity, but because the character in emoji is covered in snow gear, they all look the same 🤣

finally back in the USA after 12 years

for the first time in 12 years i ate delicious pizza and saw hot white women

god bless america 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Summer Game Reviews: Dave the Diver, Ghost of Yōtei, Pragmata and Lara Croft Go

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/dave-the-diver-ghost-of-yotei-pragmata-lara-croft-go/

just a lil derust

@sendpaws Reminder that early 4chan's main rationale behind banning furry porn wasn't bullying furries as much as it was the near-constant DMCA trolling they received if they didn't

yo dudes i need like 3 more sales on this to finally hit $100 that would be fuckin SICK

the full game is free but you can get the supported pack which is ON SALE for $3.50

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3583280/Gods_Disdain_Supporter_Pack/

@sendpaws Between that and half the Internet being destroyed because TPTB being convinced they can keep the next orange man from happening if they ban everyone, I'm more and more convinced the old Internet was just a fluke we were lucky to have.

Imagine living in a country where collecting rainwater that falls on your property is illegal. What sort of commie country would do that

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@jeremiah @zeke @Dagnar @GoyGirl @LordOfTheKangs @Rlyn @ShowMeYourLibrary @fknretardlol

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @hj @All_bonesJones @lebronjames75 yes, lots of grinding, but Mother 1 is not the worst actually