NotSteve_Dec 3

[OPINION] Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet

https://piefed.ca/c/canada/p/373772/opinion-canadas-age-verification-bill-for-porn-is-a-slippery-slope-to-a-restrictive-interne

[OPINION] Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet

Canada’s proposed Bill S-209, which addresses online age verification, is currently making its way through the Senate, and its passage would be yet…

Show threadcecilkorik
The dark web became known as the hideout of internet criminals. Once we’re all internet criminals, it will just be the hideout of everyone. Time to drop all these commercial services that we’ve let take over the internet and go back to being anonymous weirdos talking to other anonymous weirdos on websites run by anonymous weirdos. The web was ironically a nicer place. Also a shittier place, but at the same time a nicer place. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Dec 3 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threadfloofloofDec 4
They will try to ban websites run by anonymous weirdos.
Show threadcecilkorikDec 4
They can try. Bans require enforcement, and they catch a few of us weirdos from time to time, but the hydra always grows more heads.
Show threadNik282000Dec 4

“Ban Website” sounds good in the news but those words together barely even parse to an idea.

A website is just a bunch of files hosted on a computer, put them behind some kind of access control and the outside world can’t even know that they exist. Unless ISPs decide to block all inbound traffic to subscribers you can always just apt install apache2.

Show threadfloofloofDec 4

Unless ISPs decide to block all inbound traffic to subscribers

I think some ISPs already do this, if they suspect you’re running any kind of server, to force you to subscribe to a more expensive “business” plan.

Show threadNik282000Dec 4
The shitty ones do this. Or you get stuck behind cNAT.