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Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10026267

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10026266

The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed new customer verification requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers. The goal of the 'Know Your Customer' regime is to prevent fraud and abuse, including piracy. In response to this plan, prominent rightsholders want the department to expand the proposal's scope to include domain name registrars and registries. Ideally, they argue, domain companies should also be required to take down pirate domains.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They just want private Corporate Gestapo. Which is totally better than Government run Gestapo. Private "Corporations" always make the right choices.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nothing screams freedom like the surveillance of everyone's communications by a faceless secret police because terrorism and pedophilia ((exist)) — nevermind that the secret police are often the ones engaging in terrorism and pedophilia.

Don't worry, though. Surveillance capitalism is the one true arbiter or morality and ethics. It's not like capitalism has ever profited from murder, authoritarianism, or oppression... unless you're black, or brown, or poor, or female, or atheist, or a worker... filthy commoners.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

They spelled CEOs wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

ENS, unstoppable domains, tor, i2p, ipfs... I think this is actually good for the Internet, it will normalize and popularize private, censorship resistant tech. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just can't imagine how these people don't see their actions promote greater use of encryption

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Prediction: Once everything is an app, there'll be no need for generic encryption and anyone found using it will be labelled a terrorist enabler and locked up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that whole angle has me wondering if changing my own habits to gain privacy that the average person doesn't get will just put a target on my back. If they want to spy on everyone to figure out who is a danger to the ruling class and status quo, they could eventually just start treating anyone that they can't spy on as suspects and either use other mechanisms to break through that privacy to make sure or just criminalize that stuff.

They were trying but I think the last round of laws failed because they'd have to admit that the current commonly used encryption schemes have backdoors and wouldn't need to be banned when the whole question of "what about business uses?" came up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think you might have double posted by accident 🥴

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

"rightsholders" lol. Gotta love the Orwellian language.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would this affect PorkBun if it were to be implemented?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Porkbun is based in Oregon, so presumably yes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Aw man, am I going to have to jump providers again...