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So what is the real solution? Meaning the solution that an individual could use themselves, without further coordination, to insulate themselves from this policy. Is it an Android distribution? Jailbreaking? Custom builds?
God fucking damn it not again This is, what, the fifth time in ten years they try to pass shit like this?
The fascist, autocratic impulse is a big in the human firmware and will never go away . We exist constantly balanced on the razor edge precipice because we are capable of little else. Self-governing humans are not a stable system.
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They only need to succeed one time . People are generally preoccupied with a lot of other things right now, so maybe this is their lucky shot…
cough Patriot Act cough ...which Republicans swore up and down was temporary and yet, oddly, kept getting renewed wirth no evidence whatsoever it was necessary to stop a planned terrorist attack or that it would have stopped the WTC attacks themselves. I bet 90% of the population or more has no idea that the Patriot Act was dumped and replaced with the nearly identical FREEDOM Act. Which took multiple tries to pass b…
You could vote for a libertarian, but good luck.
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A lot of actual pedophiles will be exposed if it was used on politicians, we don't want that.
While we're talking about corrupt politicians, why is this all happening all at once? America, Great Britain, and the EU are all creating tracking, monitoring, and censorship regulations. All at the same time. We're turning the internet into the 1984 inevitability it was predicted to become. We need a Bill of Rights against this. But the public is too lay to push for this. Bolstering or eroding privacy rights will ne…
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Where is the difference to the US, China or the UK? Governments often try that kind of nonsense. Usually against organized crime, terrorism, child abuse. But in the end it’s just used for the heavy crimes like copyright infringement
The US, at least, has a Bill of Rights that would make this illegal, it would definitely violate the 4th Amendment and maybe the 1st too.
God fucking damn it not again This is, what, the fifth time in ten years they try to pass shit like this?
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The country is predominantly Catholic. So both prudish views on sexual content, but also wanting to pretend sexual abuse by priests in their religion, and their religion protecting those priests, isn't the problem - nope, it's the interwebs creating child abusers. That is coupled with racist fear of terrorist attacks being committed by the African and middle eastern immigrant populations. Sure are a lot of white elep…
As a French person, let me tell you you are wrong. French people mostly don't give a shit about religion and do not have any prudish views. We have many nudists beaches and women are regularly topless on the beach. Talking about sex if accepted in society and between friends and family. So it's not about that at all. What most French people are though is little children that need to be guided and protected by the sta…