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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No offense but if they can do that you have to blame your government not the ISP.... as those are the ones allowing this to happen.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago

The government are the ones telling the ISPs to do it, not just allowing it.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In some cases yes, but I would say that is allowing it too... Idk... I don't see the need to nitpick but yeah.

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

The government is elected by people who care or don't care about certain topics

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

The only choice he have here are stupid people and tech illiterate ones. Not a lot we can do except face palm at the ridiculously stupid solutions they come up with.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Those companies choose to do so as well.

[-] tonyn@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Companies will do whatever legal measure makes them the most money.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... But if there were laws that prohibited it they couldn't do it that is my point.

[-] nephs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As if the government wasn't controlled by probate lobbyists.

Blame goes to private interests being allowed to influence public decision makers, in my opinion. Infrastructure companies should not be for-profit companies.