Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?
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Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?
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#2Nope. Censorship is damage. The Internet just routes around it.
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#3>The ambitions of the UK government are bold. They want the UK “to be the safest place in the world to go online, and the best place to start and grow a digital business.”
Pick one.
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#4Given the UK government's terrible record of really awful legislation, much of it illegal itself (e.g. the recent attempts to whitewash [pollution][0]) it seems the outcome will be more rubbish legislation, if anything at all.
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/21/high-cou...
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#5The UK is a police state they think they can police everything but the politicians who are literally above the law.
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#6I'm really conflicted at this. I do not want the internet to be censored, but at the same time, I think that big internet companies are making the world worse through inaction.
Even if a user or $/yr minimum is implemented in law, then what happens as distributed and federated technology becomes more common? What does Mastadon or Scuttlebutt count as?
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#7Nope. Censorship is damage. The Internet just routes around it.
If only, the UK government might consider technology and magic the same thing but when it comes to censorship they are serious about it. It has taken them the better part of 20 years to figure it out but they are now doing real china style censorship that can not be easily circumvented.
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#8The UK is a police state they think they can police everything but the politicians who are literally above the law.
It is that way somewhat, but then on the other hand you have the USA who think they are the police of the whole world, the brute enforcers. Both situations are very bad.
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#9Nope. Censorship is damage. The Internet just routes around it.
If only, the UK government might consider technology and magic the same thing but when it comes to censorship they are serious about it. It has taken them the better part of 20 years to figure it out but they are now doing real china style censorship that can not be easily circumvented.
What censorship are they doing that cannot be easily circumvented?
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#10I'm really conflicted at this. I do not want the internet to be censored, but at the same time, I think that big internet companies are making the world worse through inaction. Even if a user or $/yr minimum is implemented in law, then what happens as distributed and federated technology becomes more common? What does Mastadon or Scuttlebutt count as?
> What does Mastadon or Scuttlebutt count as?
I think they are currently illegal because of various copyright and data protection laws in the UK.