| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 11 hours ago |
| Utah hosts I think the biggest nsa data center. Honestly, I would like my ISP to block all traffic to and from Utah if this law passes. I can't think of anything I want or need that involves that state. |
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| ▲ | Bender 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Unfortunately it does not work that way unless perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment. The traffic monitored by the NSA will pass through their collection points in each state and will be silently mirrored to them regardless of the routing of your ISP. Even if your specific ISP does not mirror data the traffic will very likely pass through ISP's that do. |
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| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think you misread me. I just meant, if companies are liable for VPN users in Utah, don't even let me connect to anything in Utah. I'm good. I realize all my traffic gets siphoned there regardless more than likely anyways. |
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| ▲ | mvdwoord 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Without it being good or bad (long term, second order effects), I do think all of these (proposed) laws and where we are heading will balkanize the internet. Alternative tech may sound appealing to the tinkerers, and they may keep certain important channels alive (think radio amateurs... they know this game) but for the masses? I already happily block entire countries or regions to my VPS as there is zero benefit for me to not drop them at the FW level. |
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| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wish there was an easy way to geolocate ip addresses by us state. It's not too hard to block everything from say russia. | | |
| ▲ | wartywhoa23 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Let's all block whole countries just because our propagandists brainwashed us so, yay, what an Internet that'll be! | | |
| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I haven't had a single person in my life or social media inform me of a single thing I have missed out on since blocking Russia and several other hostile nations with my firewall. I've been doing this for about 15 years. No regrets so far. I understand your philosophy but it doesn't match my reality. | | |
| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Warty. I doubt you personally are. But unfortunately your country has engaged in a lot of troublesome activities. We can connect through a 3rd party like we are now that's fine with me. I don't hate all Russians or anything like that. I see no reason to directly connect to any Russian Internet infrastructure though. | | | |
| ▲ | wartywhoa23 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Am I a hostile one for you, being a Russian who has to bypass both domestic blocks of the outbound traffic and (much more rare) "hostile nation" geoip blocks on the other side via VPNs just to read that damn article, mind you, not to hack anyone? | | |
| ▲ | Modified3019 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | It’s for sure not fair for you personally.
However it’s also not fair the rest of us have do deal with Russia’s hacking and propaganda organizations that are either directly state run or willfully tolerated. IP blocks don’t fix everything, but they do (or did at least) counter a good portion of the bots for no effort. You live in a country that is awful to itself and everyone around it, but that’s not something we can fix. | | |
| ▲ | wartywhoa23 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | A sad, utterly sad world to live in. Thanks for understanding the few of us who are not hackers, propagandists, or their victims.. |
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| ▲ | michaelmrose 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Russia and the US are currently attacking and threatening their neighbors in their respective wars of aggression. | | |
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| ▲ | flemhans 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which countries are you already blocking? | | |
| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Had to check my settings. Russia, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia. Have any further suggestions? |
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| ▲ | paulddraper 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Skiing |
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| ▲ | nine_k 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I hope e.g. Colorado has better Internet regulations, so I could do my skiing there instead. | |
| ▲ | 2ndorderthought 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm good, plenty of other things to do with my time and money. |
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