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No one who supports this bill cares or believes it will effect them. Government has never used precedent that pornography filters set to expand the scope of fi
by darpa_escapee 10y ago
No one who supports this bill cares or believes it will effect them.
Government has never used precedent that pornography filters set to expand the scope of filtering before [0] [3]. The government doesn't have incentive to block things that aren't 'obscene' [1] [2].
The warm fuzzies the idea of a wholesome internet limited to Facebook, World Net Daily and Veggie Tales videos, absent of bad ideas and hard truths, brings are too intoxicating.
[0] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2470767/uk-government-wants-great-firewall-of-britain-to-keep-out-foreign-invaders http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2470767/uk-governme...
[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/india-accessing-blocked-website-potentially-carries-3-year-sentence/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/india-acc...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/22/sopa-pipa-johhn-naughton https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/22/sopa-pipa...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...