At CinemaCon this year, the Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said the organization is going to work with Congress to establish and enforce a site-blocking legislation in the United States.
It may not be next President/Congress or the one after that. However there will be a President/Congress that decides to broaden the firewall to “protect us”.
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Why is this what we take from China, and not high speed rail (rhetorical)
“Our” firewall: fucked, if ever implemented. probably won’t ever be.
“Great Firewall of China”: massively fucked, already implemented.
Yours is a false equivalence. The only people suggesting it’s “good and just” are the MPA and other copyright trolls.
Go back to reddit nerd.
Yep. Peak Hexbear moment
And of course, three more of them show up to dogpile the person responding
And chime in with “but muh tiktok.”
Anything to beat the horse that china > US.
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The GFW blocks a lot more than just illegal movie sites
Isn’t that exactly what their point is?
Yes. Today piracy, tomorrow “subversive” content like unionization.
It may not be next President/Congress or the one after that. However there will be a President/Congress that decides to broaden the firewall to “protect us”.
Remember 45’s AG wanted to ban encryption?
No, however I can imagine the reason why.
I don’t get it
We’re gonna build a firewall, a big beautiful firewall.