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> It's abiding by government just fine. Is it?! It seems to be increasingly in a state of tension as governments flailingly attempt to censor and surveil. Co
by jMyles 11y ago
> It's abiding by government just fine.
Is it?! It seems to be increasingly in a state of tension as governments flailingly attempt to censor and surveil.
Content whose distribution is prohibited on "copyright" grounds is very widely available. My understanding is that drugs and illicit pornography are available on ongoing dark net markets, which are now stronger and more numerous than in the silk road days.
Jobs are routinely outsourced as remote work to the other side of the world, in violation of the spirit of labor laws.
The EFF and other organizations are in a constant cycle of litigation to ward off more impotent laws that threaten to criminalize or civilly sanction already widespread behavior on the internet.
In what ways is the internet abiding the government?
- gnaritas 11y agoThose things are all still quite barely used by the masses, government control is still firmly in place of the majority of people who abide by the law. Pointing out exceptions to the rule doesn't invalidate the rule.