I'm confused. From your point of view, this should actually be better than what was proposed, and vastly better than the regulatory scheme from 2015-2017.
From 2015-2017, regulatory authority was vested in the FCC -- the puritans who fine radio or tv stations if someone uses a swear word, make sure no R rated movies get played over the air, and issue fines for things like the famous "wardrobe malfunction." You know, censoring for content.
Before that (and now) regulatory authority is with the FTC, whose mandate is fair business practices, breaking up monopolies, that kind of thing. If there were some concerted effort to block sites like this one because they wouldn't pay up, the FTC has a pretty solid record of smashing companies doing things like that.
Really, all this does is return the state of the internet back to the state it was in 2015. Terraria was already 4 years old by then, and I don't recall such extortion happening back then...
From 2015-2017, regulatory authority was vested in the FCC -- the puritans who fine radio or tv stations if someone uses a swear word, make sure no R rated movies get played over the air, and issue fines for things like the famous "wardrobe malfunction." You know, censoring for content.
Before that (and now) regulatory authority is with the FTC, whose mandate is fair business practices, breaking up monopolies, that kind of thing. If there were some concerted effort to block sites like this one because they wouldn't pay up, the FTC has a pretty solid record of smashing companies doing things like that.
Really, all this does is return the state of the internet back to the state it was in 2015. Terraria was already 4 years old by then, and I don't recall such extortion happening back then...