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justaman | 1 year ago

I think everyone has a sour taste left over from decades of half-baked laws written by politicians that don't understand the basics of the internet or technology in general.

With that said, I also don't understand the issues people are having with this.

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ranger_danger|1 year ago

I wonder how they deal with the (hopefully) constant abuse reports aimed at them from providers who are tired of their shady customers doing shady things from their IPs.

logifail|1 year ago

> With that said, I also don't understand the issues people are having with this.

The regulation "requir[es] U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers of IaaS products to verify the identity of their foreign customers"

Q: How would one propose to determine if a customer is foreign or not?

A checkbox, perhaps? <rolls eyes>

No bad actor would possibly pretend to be a domestic customer, of course... <rolls eyes again>

refulgentis|1 year ago

That's a strawman. <rolls eyes> It won't be a checkbox, of course... <rolls eyes again>

webspinner|1 year ago

You don't understand the issues me as a blind person has with it? OK I have to upload a government ID every time I want to use an internet service. That's stupid. It's also considered a general warrant, and I thought we did away with those long ago.

newaccount7hhhf|1 year ago

What laws are you talking about? The Internet has grown a lot that’s largely because we have smart politicians and strong institutions. I really think the regulation of the Internet has been amazingly good.

Kye|1 year ago

For example: CAN-SPAM. If I want to send emails to a list, I have to burn $90 of my scarce dollars every year just for a PO box for the address at the bottom on the off chance someone sends a letter to unsubscribe. Unless I want to put my home address in every email, which I don't, and no one should. Unsubscribe links and highly effective spam filters were already completely standard when the law was passed in 2003. It doesn't matter if the email you send doesn't actually require it because every mailing list provider requires it.