Comment on No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill
Weslee@lemmy.world 4 months agoI gotta wonder if these people know that these kinds of laws will do nothing, and they are just pandering, or if they actually think this time they got it
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 4 months ago
I think they all just fundamentally don’t understand how the Internet works and how it doesn’t care about borders.
They approach it like companies are providing services to users directly like you just walked into a store and they’re in full control of everything. Like companies are explicitly entering all the markets worldwide by being available on the Internet and providing their services to users. Obviously if you provide services to Canadian users you must be a company with a presence on Canadian soils.
Except you can’t exactly put customs on the Internet like you can block sketchy imports from China when they arrive at the border. It literally crosses the border at the speed of light.
aelwero@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m reasonably certain that once enough governments jump on the “we need to control the internets” bandwagon, there will be a region specific convention adopted similar to country codes for phone numbers so that they can, in fact, apply customs to it…
I suspect it won’t be in the name of righteousness though, more likely it’ll be taxes, copyright, etc, on internet sales that trigger it.
Weslee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But somewhere down the line someone knows, either the lawmakers, or the advisors, or maybe they all know and it’s just grandstanding to those of the public that don’t know.
Really all this does is train the people with the drive or ability to learn things like DevOps to be even better at circumventing it, well this is not that hard, but generally, laws like this.