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Not just Sri Lanka - India does it, and there’s regular shut downs of the internet in sensitive areas. The China model has won, people on HN just don’t know it
by intended 8y ago
Not just Sri Lanka - India does it, and there’s regular shut downs of the internet in sensitive areas.
The China model has won, people on HN just don’t know it yet.
Remember that just a few short weeks ago, Facebook proposed an internet based regulator for hate speech and other difficult subjective judgements that have to be made every day.
These are related - this is fundamentally a question of how communities, cultures and society’s survive on the web. And the short of it is that we can’t.
The only way society survives the attackers environment of the internet, is by creating the Chinese fire wall. And narion states are no longer the lumbering elephants of the 90s and before.
Now patriotic coders are more than happy to help their governments and they march to a different tune than the peace inspired founders and inventors of the net.