From the very beginning, the foolhardiness of giving any organization authority to issue TLS certificates that browsers can use to block websites has been painfully obvious. For so many reasons. Warning after warning has been issued, but those in charge of Internet security theater in the United States and around the world have never been concerned with real security for Internet users. I am sorry to be so blunt, but organizations that use sham security (see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this) to control Internet users and the Internet itself anger me.

As far as I can see, the issuance of TLS security certificates has always been about money and control. The fact that governments would eventually realize this and step in to take the largest cut of the spoils has apparently not been enough of a deterrent to prevent the formation of the easily-corrupted TLS certification system that we have today. Well, now the chickens have finally come home to roost, and we deserve every bit of what may be coming next.

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Wahaha wrote on August 25, 2022 at 9:56 PM

#5,305

I never understood the point of certificates in the first place.

interdicted wrote on August 31, 2022 at 9:31 PM

#5,311

47 USC 230, which is explicitly Constitutionally illegal as well as violating 47 USC 202, gives the ability to telecommunications companies on the internet the ability to be exempt from prosecution for denying service to anyone if someone makes a complaint that something is offensive in any way.

What this means is that any necessary service can totally dictate the internet by obstructing communications and denying access to markets and platforms as long as one person says it's offensive.

At the top of the pyramid of control is the ISPs, followed by the DNS, followed by the platforms they can turn off without any legal liability at any time by just saying it's offensive in some way.

It's total control over communications and internet markets for the telecommunications companies and the Feds planted in them.

Things like i2P and tor allow people to run sites without the DNS, but the ISPs can shut them down entirely. i2P is far more resistant to an ISP shut down than Tor.

It doesn't surprise me that TLS would be weaponized because the USA's Federal government wants the maximal amount of leverage in case it loses control over other mechanisms.

And it is the Federal government behind the censorship. They coordinate the blacklists through the fusion centers and they are the ones preventing prosecution of the tech companies under 47 USC 202 which would nullify 47 USC 230 as unConstitutional. They're in total control of this system of manufacturing consent through communications obstruction, and they are the ones responsible for its continuation. It's the FBI and DOJ doing this to the USA.

HMTg927 OP wrote on September 21, 2022 at 10:31 AM

#5,362

Replying to (#5,311)

I believe you Interdicted, but I have not been able to find anything that does more than give a vague sense that the government is orchestrating the death of Internet free speech from behind the scenes. Do you have any good references for exactly how they are doing it?