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RANT: I hate the fact that my ISP can restrict access to certain sites (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ad_on_is@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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How can it possibly be, that an ISP, which I'm paying for gets to decid, which sites I'm allowed to have access to, and which not?

All the torrenting sites are restricted. I know, I can use VPN, and such... but I want to do it because of my privacy concerns and not because of some higher-up decided to bend over for the lobbying industry.

While on the other hand, if there's a data breach of a legit big-corp website (looking at you FB), I'm still able to access it, they get fined with a fraction of their revenue, and I'm still left empty-handed. What a hipocracy!!

What comes next? Are they gonna restrict me from using lemmy too, bc some lobbyist doesn't like the fact that it's a decentralized system which they have no control over?

Rant, over!

I didn't even know that my router was using my ISPs DNS, and that I can just ditch it, even though I'm running AdGuard (selfhosted)

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[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 6 points 10 months ago

people who want to watch Porn without supplying a government ID

Yeah, and this is where the part of my comment that discussed "laws that apply" is nuanced. If the laws that apply are designed to abridge people's autonomy, and right to privacy,, then that's an unjust law.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No disagreement here, just unsure if there will ever be a way to grant freedom to the common man without enabling unsavory actors as well.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unsavory actors will find ways around any restriction put in their way. So these restrictions only serve to remove freedoms from the rest of us not commiting unsavory acts.

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, sadly there isn't. I don't envy lawmakers - there's a knife edge they have to walk, between enabling them to catch the bad guys, but without infringing on the rights of the innocent.