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These guys basically want to recreate their own version of Chinese internet. I wish this were feasible - Uber's approach of geofencing authorities to filter th
by vezycash 8y ago
These guys basically want to recreate their own version of Chinese internet.
I wish this were feasible - Uber's approach of geofencing authorities to filter the internet for authorities - let them see what they want to see. And let the rest of us have a free internet.
- digi_owl 8y agoI seem to recall Bono went on record and praised the Chinese Firewall during a copyright hearing some years back...
- acct1771 8y agoBono being an authoritarian? Cmon.
- Latteland 8y agoI've got to believe that European people as a whole don't understand the implications of this. It's a really horrible thing - they should be protesting in the street about it.
- DanBC 8y agoWhich draft did you read? Could you link to it please?
- ealhad 8y agoThe people “as a whole” don't understand indeed, and this is rather problematic. Protesting in the street can get quite difficult when the media turn public opinion against you, while the state is sending troops equipped with “non-lethal” weapons.
- kojon99 8y agoWho protested in the street when ISPs started sending letters to people who pirated content?
- AstralStorm 8y agoWe've been fighting these recurrent ideas time and again, mostly winning on technical grounds. This is pretty weak. Freedom is not a good argument against a torpedo that is "think of the children". We start by educating how expensive, impractical, unenforceable and ineffective such things are.