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Lawmakers Call On Amazon and Google To Reconsider Ban On Domain Fronting (cyberscoop.com)
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.
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.
I think I got that wrong, politicians want Amazon to enable people to circumvent censorship and country lockouts?
Did the RIAA check bounce?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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 keeping people from having the freedom to speak.
Remember, at some point in the US, interracial marriages were outlawed as indecent as well, and let me be clear here: I'm not saying that child pornography is the same thing or should ever be legal. I just don't want the government coming and saying what I say is illegal. I don't mind if the government says what I do is illegal. But what I say is not illegal. Just because I said it. Ever.
Mind you that doesn't mean there aren't consequences. Just that it's not the speech your going to jail for.
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 constitutionally incapable of actually being far enough to the left.
The whole world shifted right at the same damn time.
No, no it didn't. It's just a couple of countries, the US and England. Most other countries are still moving to the left, or simply maintaining business as usual.
The far right is is now the radical left
What the hell are you on about?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"