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The USA could mess up how it treats the Internet a few hundred times and not get to how the UK is. The UK censors a huge number of websites on the basis of cont
by arjie 10y ago
The USA could mess up how it treats the Internet a few hundred times and not get to how the UK is. The UK censors a huge number of websites on the basis of content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
> Categories blocked across the major ISPs include: Dating, Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco, File sharing, Gambling, Games, Pornography, Nudity, Social networking, Suicide and Self-harm, Weapons and violence, Obscenity, Criminal Skills, Hate, Media Streaming, Fashion and Beauty, Gore, Cyberbullying, Hacking and Web-blocking circumvention tools
It's apparently what the British want, so that's what they're going to get, but the idea that US censorship will lead to British prosperity is ludicrous.
- tehwalrus 10y agoI did say I doubt it, if you actually read my post. Also, I'll just point out that British censorship systems don't stop the content from being hosted (except where it is illegal, where I wouldn't call that censorship,) it is censored at the ISP level. So, foreign companies could reasonably host stuff in the UK more safely on that basis. (Unfortunately the recent ban on hosting end-to-end encryption services here wipes out my argument, but that's an orthogonal to the specific case of censorship.)
- arjie 10y agoI did read it. I was upgrading your mild expression of disbelief to downright incredulity.