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And the UK would have too, just like they censored the press and controlled the radio EDIT: I'm not making a judgement about whether it's right or wrong, but i

And the UK would have too, just like they censored the press and controlled the radio EDIT: I'm not making a judgement about whether it's right or wrong, but it's quite clear that the internet can be used as a weapon, and a government (be that Hitler's, Churchill's, Kennedy's, or Khrushchev's) wanting to control that weapon is understandable. What I will say is that it seems to me that the damage to the average population that the internet can cause in these situations is far higher than the gain. It's not 1776 any more.

samizdis 5y ago
The UK has operated a system for enforcing censorship for a long time. Formerly known as the D-Notice, later DA-Notice and now DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) [1]. The Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee responsible for the system has a website explaining its operations and history [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Notice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Notice [2] https://www.dsma.uk/ https://www.dsma.uk/