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

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    3 days ago

    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
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      3 days ago

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