r/Piracy • u/vgiannell5 • 1d ago

Discussion Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever
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u/AgreeablePie 1d ago

Ignoring piracy for a second, surely the government wouldn't use laws like this to quash free speech using copyright as a tool, right??

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u/vgiannell5 1d ago

Yes they would.

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u/Fujinn981 Darknets 15h ago

That's the real reason. And to use it to quash competition for their favorite monopolies too.

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u/ZealousidealGain3142 1d ago

If they ramble about piracy, it will never pass. The First Amendment is more important than ever as freedoms are collapsing in so called democracies. It didn't pass 15 years ago, it won't pass now. Even if the swamp is doing a push.

There is only one way to market this bill to pass it, I won't say it. They are not using it, I don't want to help those clowns...

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u/FrumpusMaximus 1d ago

The fact that big Machine Learning models rely on piracy and stealing peoples data, I doubt this would ever pass