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Oh. Making something illegal illegal again? That’ll be effective.
It's a slippery slope. Soon they will make doing illegal things a crime.
If you read the bill, heavily sponsored by the MPA, part of it is about forcing ISPs (and presumably US based VPNs) to block the DNS/URLs of "foreign criminal" sites.
It's laying the groundwork for a Great American Firewall.
If you use a US-based VPN, you fucked up yourself.
DoH!
So many long games are being played now, it's like everything is laying groundwork for something else. Would be nice for laws to just do what they do.
Freedomwall
Wouldn't be the first wall he put up in the name of freedom