The Block BEARD bill broadly applies to service providers as defined in section 512(k)(1)(A) of the DMCA. This is a broad definition that applies to residential ISPs, but also to search engines, social media platforms, and DNS resolvers.

Service providers with fewer than 50,000 subscribers are explicitly excluded

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[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 55 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I bet they spent more time working on making a cool sounding acronym than they did actually writing the bill. If this actually passed, it would do nothing except encourage people to use an out of geo VPN, I2P, or non-US DNS server.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What worries me about it is how it applies very broadly, so it would mean stuff like the reddit piracy megathread could be prohibited, and make it actually more difficult for people to find or discuss places to safely pirate things

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

just means they push it to the hidden layers (signal). its stupid of them. they're just making it harder to manage.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe GeminiSpace becomes the high seas info go to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

I don't see it. More probable is moving to i2p and onion adresses.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This is an interesting rabbit hole

I tried hitting tilded up black and Gemini space but I'm not seeing watching the way of sites that answer.

Most of the stuff in search isn't working either.

*edit for those trying this, use the search, go home, then click known hosts, there's a LOAD of sites, 80% or so work.

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