> Israel.tv, Israeli-tv.com, and Sdarot.tv
Why the blocking injunction rather than going through the usual channels of filing takedown orders against the companies providing hosting for these sites?
This sets a rather nasty precedent. From here on, ISPs can be ordered to block literally anything and the plumbing will already be in place.
Between rolling back Roe v. Wade and now this, things seem to be getting out of hand with the authoritarian government in the USA.
It's a shame we don't have the option to sail across the ocean and found a new country where we can abolish the authoritarian republic, deprivation of human rights, and high taxes without commensurate representation
Sadly we broke that a long time ago and Humpty Dumpty isn't going back together again.
We grow most of their food, and make most of their technology. What are they contributing besides hate and divisiveness?
I've been thinking along those lines myself lately - like India and Pakistan partitioning in 1947.
It's not only depressing but it's a tragedy for the country especially at a time when China is on the ascendancy, Russia is becoming more Stalinist like and the world generally is becoming a more dangerous place.
The lack of a common narrative within the US is potentially devastating not only for the US itself but also other Western democracies. This division within the US ought to be of primary concern to US citizens but it doesn't seem so.
I'm not in the US and I can't help feeling that the decline of the US and its world influence is of more concern to people like me than it is for many US citizens.
As I said it's very depressing and many of us on the outside are looking on helplessly knowing that we can do nothing about it.
(I have fond memories of using mIRC, at my summer job at the local ISP, blatantly abusing our control of the bandwidth to download a gargantuan file, a copy of a movie that just came out called "The Matrix". Good times.)
You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections!
You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line.
More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)
