Technology
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I am not an American and I couldn't care less about their laws or the people in power. Why is content here so focused on the US anyway?
Then post tech news from your country.
In this case, sites could make content unavailable to everyone to make sure Americans using VPNs don't see it.
What about sites hosted there, or operated by Americans?
Because you'll be effected by this too. That's the reason. The internet is full of platforms that are related to the USA in some way, and because of this all of them will have to heavily censor themselves or shut down.
I feel you. I don't want to have to do anything with the USA. I don't even want to go there at all. As far as it doesn't hurt anyone outside I don't care what they do. But here we are.
If you don’t care then why are you asking?
The US likes to throw its weight around. Today it's websites inside the US the tighty righties are afraid of. Tomorrow it might be one of yours; just like the GDPR has caused a lot of USian websites to be even more annoying, USian legislation might do it to non-USian websites next.