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Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet

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Re: Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet

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Post by wanda »

> If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy" – and crack down on Facebook and Google to ensure that news companies get enough advertising money.

The last agency that should decide what's reliable or objective is the government. Despite voting to remain within the EU, I was optimistic about Brexit. Change is good. I'm English/Irish. I never expected to say these words, but I think I'll go to Europe.

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Post by felipelemos »

hardlianotion wrote: post #4

This is something else the UK could outsource to China - these guys have the state-of-the-art on monitoring and blocking technology. Something is very wrong here.

And even there it does not really work if you have the means to circumvent it. And guess what? The terrorists have, but the everyday man have not.

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Post by monk_e_boy »

DarkKomunalec wrote: post #5

> will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online" Why just online? Isn't it about time we stop letting car-makers and construction companies get away with helping terrorists? I say all cars and rooms in houses should be fitted with mandatory listening devices, constantly transmitting to government servers. Encrypted, of course, with a court warrant required for…

It's interesting that there is a huge section of the UK population that this sort of thing appeals to. Out of touch with technology, terrified of change, disconnected with the younger generation.

So many people vote without knowing the party policies. "My dad voted Tory, I vote Tory."

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Post by paradite »

kristianc wrote: post #7

It does make me laugh as a British citizen when the government touts the use of evidence-based frameworks and its ' nudge' unit and then employs a blunt instrument such as this which is purely legislative and flies in the face of all available evidence. Since the advent of the internet and the accompanying rise of internet porn, sexual irresponsibility, teen sex, rape and divorce have all been in decline. That's to s…

I'm curious as to which "Chinese example" do you have in mind that doesn't work?

Edit to reply to your wifi issue: you need to use that one website to login to access the "full" internet.

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Post by arethuza »

kbart wrote: post #8

Heh, of course it can't go without "terrorists" trump card: "the government will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online"." It's very sad to see UK becoming closed, police state.

We've had an oppressive police state on and off for decades - the only difference now it isn't just applied to miners or Northern Irish nationalists.

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Post by pjc50 »

.. while at the same time removing some of the few restrictions that exist on what can be posted in the newspapers (which are definitely neither reliable nor objective).

Remember which newspapers are cheering this stuff on. They're usually the same ones that brought us Brexit.

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