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Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites
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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
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Great, more boomers who can't understand how the internet works.
This doesn't stem from a lack of understanding. It's about corporations and control.
We need to stop believing the boomer’s framing that they’re all old and dumb, and start realizing that they’d eat us if we tasted good
Given all the cute sentient animals humans gleefully consume, your words ring true.
Those cute sentient animals would eat us too if they were sapient. And we tasted good.
The difference is we pretend to be better than then, we know better and can usually do something about it.
I’m doing my part by only eating animals that are assholes
Each half of that sentence is diametrically opposed to the other.
The thing that would make us better isn’t knowing; it’s doing. It makes sense to say that someone who knows better but behaves no better is literally no better.
Rationality is sensitivity and responsiveness to reasons, and plenty of folks are unresponsive to normative facts.
At least 70% of humans are just dangerously intelligent animals. Like imagine a polar bear that can drive and trade stocks. That’s the average person.
All humans are animals. The idea that any of us exist outside or above nature is simple sophestry.
Can't have those small-time AI startups gathering training data like the big boys do.
No, we're at the point where the people pushing these laws do understand how the Internet works, and they want to control all of it.
It’s a series of tubes.
I mean, kind of, but also absolutely not
Ironically, that guy was probably the closest any politician at the time got to understanding what the internet was.