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Generally these sorts of draconian measures seem to filter down from China, to the UK, then to Australia and New Zealand, Canada, and then the United States. F
by beedogs 11y ago
Generally these sorts of draconian measures seem to filter down from China, to the UK, then to Australia and New Zealand, Canada, and then the United States. From end to end it takes about 10 years.
- vonklaus 11y agocurious of an example. Do you have one?
- Natsu 11y agoThe list of blocked websites would be one such measure. It always starts with terrorists or some such and eventually filters down to local politics and whatnot.
- chaostheory 11y agoPedos are also another scare tactic.
- morgante 11y agoExcept there aren't blocklists in the US...
- venomsnake 11y agoThere are in UK, and MPAA already had some very nasty attacks on some of the file lockers and torrent sites funding. Just wait.
- morgante 11y agoI think it's a lot further away than you assume. The US has much stronger free speech protections than most countries and really doesn't take kindly to censorship. The MPAA has gone after torrent sites, but that's very different from blocklists. For one thing, it involves actually shutting down the site so isn't really a viable vector for mass censorship.
- venomsnake 11y ago> For one thing, it involves actually shutting down the site so isn't really a viable vector for mass censorship. automatic DMCA abuses showed perfectly well how with cooperating partners we are all screwed.
- Natsu 11y agoShutting down the site actually censors it in all countries, not just one. I'd say that's more dangerous than blocklists.
- Natsu 11y agoIf you look at the progression, the US was listed after the rest. UK, Australia, etc. have all had big controversies over block lists and I think they're still working on implementing them in Canada.
- beedogs 11y agoYep, the blocklist is just being implemented now in Australia.
- chaostheory 11y agoIf I remember correctly, the foundation of the Great Firewall came from Cisco both the hardware and expertise so it's no surprise that this would try to make its way into the US.