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”.
This post explaining why the Motion Picture Association and Congress will work together to start blocking piracy sites in the US had no business being in a thread about how the Motion Picture Association and Congress will work together to start blocking piracy sites.
Pathetic, deleting comments critical of your moderation.
I can’t think of something more on-topic in a thread about American industry lobbying than a study by Princeton, published in a reputable journal, specifically on the topic of lobbying of the American government by industry.
Our firewall: Good and just
“Great Firewall of China”: Bad and scary
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
Why is this what we take from China, and not high speed rail (rhetorical)
We’re gonna build a firewall, a big beautiful firewall.
“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.
Whole lot of people on board with banning Tiktok, though.
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.
No shit?
Love to live in a thriving democracy where what the average citizen wants is prioritized by the government instead of what corporations want. This will pass. The only constituency of the American government is capital.
This post explaining why the Motion Picture Association and Congress will work together to start blocking piracy sites in the US had no business being in a thread about how the Motion Picture Association and Congress will work together to start blocking piracy sites.
Come on man, give them some slack, you know they didn’t click on the link, theres no way they could’ve possibly known what the post was about.
Go back to reddit nerd.
Pathetic, deleting comments critical of your moderation.
I can’t think of something more on-topic in a thread about American industry lobbying than a study by Princeton, published in a reputable journal, specifically on the topic of lobbying of the American government by industry.
“Unruffled” indeed.