Pirate Site Not Impressed by Global DNS Blocking Order

Re:Pirate Site Not Impressed by Global DNS Blocking Order by inetknght on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:29PM (#37016466)

> people should have the skill of critically assessing the information they see, not trusting it by default, and knowing how to verify it

Unfortunately, in America and I imagine abroad, those skills have been actively eroded so as to favor of consumerism. Moreover, the tools to pull one over on your fellow man have gotten more and more sophisticated such that you cannot trust recorded voices to be real, you cannot trust recorded video of people talking, and likely soon won't be able to trust recorded video at all.

There's a serious problem with that in its own. But it's compounded when people don't satisfy the very requirements you want of them.

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Re:Pirate Site Not Impressed by Global DNS Blocking Order by thejazzman on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:36PM (#37017322)

Not to mention health conditions that prohibit people from sharing the mental capacity of people on here.

Or let's get specific. My 96yo great aunt with Alzheimer's who has been repeatedly preyed upon.

I'm kind of shocked and disappointed to see these attitudes amongst my colleagues. I thought we cared about each other.

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Re:Pirate Site Not Impressed by Global DNS Blocking Order by Ms-J on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:02PM (#37017520)

There will always be lies out there. Sometimes the information is subjective to whomever is reading it. It's on the individual to determine first what he would like to read, and second, if it's true or false.

I care that everyone has a choice and blocking information has no place in a free society.

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Re:Pirate Site Not Impressed by Global DNS Blocking Order by cgio on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:27PM (#37018052)

It’s further compounded by accelerating the atrophy. What you are describing is a vicious circle that ends with no freedom.

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