Lawmakers Call On Amazon and Google To Reconsider Ban On Domain Fronting (cyberscoop.com) 44
An anonymous reader quotes CyberScoop: Amazon and Google face sharp questions from a bipartisan pair of U.S. senators over the tech giants' decisions to ban domain fronting, a technique used to circumvent censorship and surveillance around the world. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter on Tuesday to Google CEO Larry Page and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over decisions by both companies in April to ban domain fronting.
Amazon then warned the developers of encrypted messaging app Signal that the organization would be banned from Amazon's cloud services if the service didn't stop using Amazon's cloud as cover. "We respectfully urge you to reconsider your decision to prohibit domain fronting given the harm it will do to global internet freedom and the risk it will impose upon human rights activists, journalists, and others who rely on the internet freedom tools," the senators wrote.
Amazon then warned the developers of encrypted messaging app Signal that the organization would be banned from Amazon's cloud services if the service didn't stop using Amazon's cloud as cover. "We respectfully urge you to reconsider your decision to prohibit domain fronting given the harm it will do to global internet freedom and the risk it will impose upon human rights activists, journalists, and others who rely on the internet freedom tools," the senators wrote.
Re: Trump will reconsider his treason (Score:5, Insightful)
What these countries should be subjected to is for the rest of the world to decide the internet needs to be free, and totally free, everywhere. No GeoIP fencing, no banned services.
If a private company wants to do it, fine by them. But if a country tried this shit, the rest of the world should block them off the internet entirely, watch their economy have a coronary, and beat them into allowing the net to operate the way the net wants to operate. If you build a messaging service, you should be able to market it to everyone, regardless of where they are.
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Fuck off. If I got a rope, I'd Lynch you with it for suggest I hang myself.
Back to the topping at hand. The internet is whatever each country wants it to be, so I'd countries decided they didn't want to partake with other countries who had draconian laws, the herd would move the straggler. That's all I'm saying. Oh, and not that I vote for him (I'm more a balls and strikes kind of guy anyway), but there's no way at this point given the state of the country, Trump loses in 2020. He will win. Statistics make
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The 2016 election capsized the democrats. The only way for them to recover is to partner with Republicans.
Nonsense. That is not a recovery.
The only way for the DNC to recover is to embrace the left, instead of trying to be centrist. Voters have shown that they will vote for extremely liberal candidates, and the DNC has shown that it will stab them in the back at every opportunity. Polls showed that Sanders could have defeated Trump, but the DNC chose to run Clinton even though registered democratic voters wanted them to run Sanders. Unfortunately, the DNC is a bunch of corporate whores and they are constitution
Re: Trump will reconsider his treason (Score:3)
Should child pornography be banned on the internet? No. Should people who produce and consume child pornography wherever it resides be prosecuted, and in my opinion raped and tortured, yes!
If you wanted to write a history book on Child Pornography, and some state deemed that illegal, that's an infringement of free speech. I don't mind prosecuting for doing things. I do mind prosecuting people for saying things.
Making child pornography is wrong. Consuming it is wrong. But those two don't justify the wrong of
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Even though "ban child porn" seems simple for us, globally it isn't so. What is a "child"? Why should adult pornography be legal?
You and I probably have the same definitions and overall opinion. But a person becomes an adult at different ages across the world. And yes, they get adult responsibilities. We might think it is 21. Others 17, 15, 13, and some even 10. And that's present day. For Romans it was 8! A person could be sentenced to life at 8! In the US a person as young as 12 can be tried as an adu
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Well the internet as it now exists wasn't built for free.
He means free as in speech, not as in beer.
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Thank you.
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A few years ago the USA's own immigration and customs enforcement DNS-blocked a Spanish sports betting site. What do you suggest the rest of the world do about it? Blackhole all IP addresses assigned to the USA? Seems exvessive, but if you think it would help keep the internet available there, maybe we should.
Wait a moment (Score:5, Insightful)
I think I got that wrong, politicians want Amazon to enable people to circumvent censorship and country lockouts?
Did the RIAA check bounce?
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Amazingly, not all politicians are mere stereotypes. Some of them are actually human. Worth looking at who these specific people are and remembering their names.
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Domain fronting may be useful for circumvent censorship and surveillance, but fact is that it is used mostly for criminal behavior.
So we either stop the usage or just accept that criminals will be the primary users of the service.
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But net neutrality ... (Score:2)
... don't touch that, OK?
That's a capitalism of a different colour.
Election season (Score:2)
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Yes, in the US there's always an election coming up, but no, both these senators were elected in 2016 to 6-year terms so neither is facing reelection. Perhaps you could consider the possibility that they mean what they say and are actually concerned about the future of free speech?