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It's probably a nitpick, but to me Mozilla has always been an organisation with a global mission. They make it seem like these decisions have a global impact, w
by skrebbel 10y ago
It's probably a nitpick, but to me Mozilla has always been an organisation with a global mission. They make it seem like these decisions have a global impact, whereas in reality, if I'm not mistaken, this is about national policy for a single country. A country which is not mentioned by name at all in the entire article.
I wish authors would step away from the "USA == world" idea a bit more often. I'd like to get an idea of whether this impacts the rest of the world at all. My impression is "no" but most articles on the subject are too busy screaming "fire!" to clarify much about this.
The title of this article is "one step closer to a closed internet". That really does make it seem like this can have internet-wide impact though, but I don't see it. Anyone?
- ajdlinux 9y agoAs an Australian I agree that Americans have a tendency to forget that the world exists beyond US borders, but the internet and the tech industry is still dominated by US companies. A less-free US internet absolutely has flow-on effects to the rest of the world when the rest of the world is dependent on US services. Furthermore, the FCC is setting a very poor example for other regulators...
- anewday 9y agoAnd also that US law propagates through the world by trade deals and such.