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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 tw-20260303-001 »

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

Well, UK is just one small part of Europe. You probably also confuse Europe and the EU.

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Post by normie3000 »

sickofparadox wrote: post #16
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...

Sounds interesting..Paywalled.

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

fidotron wrote: post #19
Refreeze5224 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That article was about people suing openAI.

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Post by sveme »

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

Out of curiosity, do you expect that freedom.gov will contain socialist, communist, extreme left-wing or islamist point of views?

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Post by direwolf20 »

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 has been China forever, they have the most surveillance cameras and police home visits per capita of any developed country and their people like it this way.

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Post by direwolf20 »

sickofparadox wrote: post #16
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...

Can you give some examples of the speech the UK arrests people for?

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

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Post by fidotron »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #23
fidotron wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That article was about people suing openAI.

It contains "The plaintiffs allege no age verification took place on the site."

As if this is a problem.

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Post by nekusar »

noosphr wrote: post #6
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?

That's deeply unfair. China's economy is growing.

Yeah ive been watching whats happening with the URKL (United Robot Knockout League). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K62dK3Av334

Musk's jokes basically disassemble when doing a backflip. Fucking joke. Whereas the Chinese bots are doing Mui Thai, karate, and loads more.

But... China is copying us

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