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Re: UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process

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Post by IshKebab »

mikece wrote: post #2

Aside from "the dark web," are there any efforts to create an impossible-to-censor parallel version or subset of the internet?

There's Freenet but these sorts of projects generally have issues because the biggest segments of society that want impossible-to-censor are also the worst.

Re: UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process

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Post by Rexogamer »

treeman79 wrote: post #22
happytiger wrote: post #11

Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?

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we are currently under a right wing government whose media friends smeared their only real opposition as... a dangerous communist who would destroy the country. their main opposition now are copying more and more of their policies.

they are not, in fact, communists and are pretty far away from ever being left of centre.

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Post by gorwell »

happytiger wrote: post #11

Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?

No doubt they will sell it by saying the opposite.

"Online harms are extremely dangerous to our democracy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M

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Post by Rexogamer »

happytiger wrote: post #11

Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?

considering their other actions (including requiring voter ID despite very few cases of voter fraud in the last election - a move which just so happens to favour older voters (who are more likely to vote for the tories) and which harms younger voters (who are more likely to go elsewhere)), I think they do

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Post by blippitybleep »

treeman79 wrote: post #22
happytiger wrote: post #11

Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?

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I’m not sure why a conservative government would want to implement Marxism or where Marx mentioned censorship of this sort.

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Post by toyg »

varispeed wrote: post #15
toyg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lords and dukes don't give a monkey - in fact, the House of Lords has largely been a progressive organ over the last 20 years. Turns out that, once they're given a sinecure, political hacks and flunkeys often rediscover their ethics and morals. This is more the "Online Harm To Tory Propaganda And Election Chances Bill".

> This is more the "Online Harm To Tory Propaganda And Election Chances Bill". Hey, let's not forget that Labour also supports this bill.

Yeah but one of those parties can drop it, and they won't.

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Post by blipvert »

treeman79 wrote: post #22
happytiger wrote: post #11

Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?

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Oh, pity the (faux?) naive child who has been brought up on a diet of McCarthyism.

You’re so scared of reds under the bed that you can’t see what the (increasingly far-)right wing are doing to you.

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Post by mc32 »

happytiger wrote: post #11

Do they not realize that they will kill democracy in the process?

It seems that “government” the noun, tends toward autocracy and that democracy is a curious detour that is fun while it perseveres but it looks like many governments are tending less democratic. We’re not seeing this only in despotic systems or right wing or left wing, all of them are becoming more authoritarian. France, Canada, the US as well as the usual suspects.
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