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UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s

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Re: UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s

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Post by chaostheory »

colesantiago wrote: post #8

This is fine. The internet is going to be filled with bots anyway so might as well restrict it to this age group. They should be outdoors with no access to the internet. Why not extend this to under 25s or the elderly? I'm sure the online safety act also needs to extend this to chatbots and anything that can heavily manipulate and distort this age group.

You forgot the /s for the sarcasm challenged

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Post by chii »

core-utility wrote: post #10

But just a month ago everyone in the discussion about freedom.gov was saying that Europe doesn't restrict internet! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

but now the definition of europe becomes europe but not UK, since it's convenient to maintain the argument rather than discuss the real underlying issue!

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Post by thomastjeffery »

colesantiago wrote: post #8

This is fine. The internet is going to be filled with bots anyway so might as well restrict it to this age group. They should be outdoors with no access to the internet. Why not extend this to under 25s or the elderly? I'm sure the online safety act also needs to extend this to chatbots and anything that can heavily manipulate and distort this age group.

They won't be restricting the age group from the internet. They will be restricting the internet. That's not fine. There is no feasible way to restrict the internet for an exclusive group, it's the internet!

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Post by sickofparadox »

christkv wrote: post #2

So the UK is now China it seems. What a shining light for democracy and justice. There is no way this will be abused by petty little tyrant minister right?

The UK already arrests more than 1,000 a month people for online "hate speech". Higher than the official numbers for China, whatever those are worth. They'll probably reach the unofficial, real number soon enough. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

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Post by nexus6 »

apopapo wrote: post #7
christkv wrote: post #2

So the UK is now China it seems. What a shining light for democracy and justice. There is no way this will be abused by petty little tyrant minister right?

Sadly it's not only the UK. There is a global push to restrict communication world-wide. The future is very bleak for fundamental freedoms.

I’m not convinced anymore that we can handle freedom. Many children grow up glued to a phone or tablet watching AI videos and are targets of dis-information from foreign and/or hostile actors.

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Post by fidotron »

christkv wrote: post #2

So the UK is now China it seems. What a shining light for democracy and justice. There is no way this will be abused by petty little tyrant minister right?

> So the UK is now China it seems

Western governments have been looking enviously at China's authoritarianism (notoriously Trudeau blurted out he admired their "basic dictatorship" back in 2013) while completely ignoring any elements that might actually improve the lives of the citizens.

Our politicians are determined to implement the worst of our respective systems.

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Post by fidotron »

Refreeze5224 wrote: post #5
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #4

In effect, this is the power to restrict internet to anyone.

It is, and I have no doubt that is the entire point, despite them "thinking of the children."

The Canadian version of this is especially cynical: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c309y25prnlo

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Post by mhitza »

core-utility wrote: post #10

But just a month ago everyone in the discussion about freedom.gov was saying that Europe doesn't restrict internet! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

Big exaggeration. Opened the link and with the dozen comments or so that I've seen there is no rhetoric of the kind your asserting.

We know from France, UK, Spain, Italy that censorship is ramping up rather than down.

Still not a good enough excuse for freedom.gov when the current US agenda is to support the right wing organizations in Europe.

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