The Senate just passed a bill that will let the federal and state governments investigate and sue websites that they claim cause kids mental distress. It’s a terrible idea to let politicians and bureaucrats decide what people should read and view online, but the Senate passed KOSA on a 91-3 vote....
  • UnpopularCrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    3 months ago

    It passed 91-3. Our representatives are ignorant dinosaurs who don’t understand the internet or how it works. I already contacted both my senators. I plan to contact my house members before they make this abomination into a law. I encourage everyone to do the same.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    733·
    3 months ago

    Make sure your router has built-in VPN support folks. That way when some shit like this does eventually pass all your traffic can flow over the VPN for your entire network.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      61·
      3 months ago

      This law seems to be aimed at taking down hosted content though, so you can connect over your VPN but the sites won’t be there to connect to, unless they move their hosting out of the USA. And even that might not be enough to protect US companies from being forced to take the content down if they want to survive.

    • dynamic_generals@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      I’ve had this setup and would recommend but since I’ve switched from OpenVPN to Wiregaurd I’m getting constantly hit by cloud flare verification s and captchas… and my IP hasn’t changed once since. Wondering if that’s just the environment now or specific to my protocol change. Any readers’ experiences?

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        3 months ago

        Cloudfare sees a lot of traffic from a single ip and performs the checks you’re seeing to make sure it’s not malicious. Google will do the same, as will a number of other services.

        It’s the nature of a shared vpn service.

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          3 months ago

          That is the goal, I guess, big tech companies don’t like if one protects their privacy…

          • FierySpectre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            Best of all captchas which require human interaction are completely redundant anyways. From a security perspective anyways (blocking bots generating huge amounts of traffic)… For training your next LLM however…

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      121·
      3 months ago

      Make sure to own your router, I’d say. Set you ISP router to modem mode and use OpnSense on a APU as router where you have full control. You can filter ads with adGuard and you can use wireGuard and openVPN to connect to a VPN provider as well as setting up an endpoint so you can protect yourself even on the go and even on locked up systems like iOS.

      Except, Apple does let some of their own packages not go through VPN, which is very shady, tho.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      If you’re savy then install open wrt on it. If you want expert mode, then install pfsense on an old PC/laptop. If you want pucker factor, then install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it’s ip from the VM.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it’s ip from the VM.

        Why are you like this, and who hurt you??

        • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          It’s actually not bad to do it as long as your host machine has a static ip. Makes it easier to take a snapshot before you make major changes. Just be prepared with an extra router. If you have a family the second the Internet is not working you will be blamed.

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            It’s actually not bad to do it as long as your host machine has a static ip

            Yeah, that’s reasonable

            install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it’s ip from the VM

            This not so much

            If you have a family the second the Internet is not working you will be blamed.

            Lol, I get blamed enough for DNS, I don’t need routing too

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Thanks! Just to be sure, the router company becomes inconsequential when I install openwrt, or am I mistaken?

            As in say I buy a linksys router and install openwrt, linksys can no longer spy on my traffic, so I shouldn’t worry about that, right?

            • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Yeah. There’s a possibility that there is a backdoor built into the soc, but that would be nation state level stuff that would be extremely difficult to uncover.

              • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Ok cool thanks, I’ll probably go with something on this list then. My other things I was looking at were the Turris Omnia and the Peplink B-one, but tbh a lynksys with openwrt will likely serve me fine.

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    472·
    3 months ago

    The US is a hostile place for online hosting. All small and medium businesses should move their operations out of the US. I did years ago, never looked back. Only the big ones with lobbiests will remain, just as our dear lord and saviour capitalism intended.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      There’s a bunch of billionaires who own private small to medium businesses that donate heavily to the RNC. The owners of companies like Uline, Menards, and other B2B companies that you’ve probably never heard of.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    The members of Congress who vote for this bill should remember—they do not, and will not, control who will be in charge of punishing bad internet speech. The Federal Trade Commission, majority-controlled by the President’s party, will be able to decide what kind of content “harms” minors, then investigate or file lawsuits against websites that host that content.

    Oh, fuck. I get the Republicans voting for it, but what the fuck is wrong with the Democrats? Bernie voted yes on this thing!

    • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.

      One that isn’t necessarily in our best interests.

      Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (especially about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.

      The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who’s supposed to be the way forward and should’ve had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.

      We were warned about a two party system.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    What exactly is the benchmark for triggering an investigation? Child Gambling or just cartoons which say the ungodly word “taint”?

    Idk, depending on the context I might support this bill. If you need to have real quantifiable evidence of harm done to children then you should expect the authorities to come in and clean it up.