Fuck. Goodbye anti-imperialist speech. Goodbye health resources for LGBTQ people. Goodbye old internet.
The fediverse can form the basis of the new Internet. More use of “local only” comms will help an “underground” start to develop.
I think it would be interesting for Lemmy to add an in-between “neighborhood” level for comms where certain instances like 'grad could interact but larger instances could not. I have always thought it would be healthy for Hexbear to split to a new instance on occasion and federate back when there’s a struggle session, but it’s also understandable why that hasn’t happened yet.
I haven’t read the text of the bill, but the Fediverse, in and of itself, is not a solution. The Fediverse is much more resilient against corporate censorship for a number of reasons, but the infrastructure is still largely centralized under the roofs of a handful of cloud hosting providers. When the Five Eyes deem an instance (or the whole platform) to be a threat to their political power, rather than a threat to Reddit’s ad revenue, they will lean on these cloud service providers to conduct surveillance on users or shut down instances, and they will comply without putting up a fight out of self-preservation.
The fediverse can form the basis of the new Internet.
If one is careful to avoid using companies for email, payment processing, hosting, etc. who have any sort of business tie to America.
nearly unanimous vote, too
In the senate, it passed with a voice vote
In the house, it passed 409 - 2
AND THE TWO NAY VOTES WEREN’T EVEN DEMS!!!
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025104
The GOP gets more opposition from itself than the dems
Congress is only gridlocked when they would potentially be passing something good.
Congress loves restricting internet privacy.
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They came after posters. POSTERS!
Small government btw
Sometimes I feel like capitalists read all the propaganda they fund about China and get jealous of the fantasy tyranny.
China has boomed in the last decade and these folks will emulate anything they think might get them a bigger slice of the pie
D2A
Oh cool, end to end encrypted communication platforms might end encryption to comply with this.
