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> Which again, is the point - to turn the internet into the easily regulable cable TV that they already understand. Unless the UK significantly increases its m
by zarzavat 4y ago
> Which again, is the point - to turn the internet into the easily regulable cable TV that they already understand.
Unless the UK significantly increases its military capacity and sets up world government, they will not be able to shut down the internet. The internet will still exist. The best they can hope for is a great firewall / North Korea type situation which would require a much more authoritarian (moreover functioning) government than even the UK can muster.
- sbierwagen 4y ago1) The point isn't to regulate the internet, it's to regulate what UK citizens can see. 2) The great firewall was complicated by the design goal of accessing some, but not all, foreign websites. The UK could accomplish their goals in a day or two by just cutting all the underwater cables. That sounds like an impossible crazy thing, but so did Brexit a couple years ago.
- olivermarks 4y ago'Cutting' is extreme but the spooky filtering that is almost certainly already in place certainly isn't, as Chinese citizens are all too aware
- worldofmatthew 4y agoThe EU might see that as an act of war...... A large amount (if not the vast majority) of fibre optics from Europe to Americas, go though the UK and cutting them off cuts off the biggest parts of the world from each other.
- BurningFrog 4y agoThe EU might also see the UK as an inspiration!
- 1991g 4y agoI do not think the European perception of the UK could accurately be described as "inspirational" at the moment.
- usr1106 4y agoThe UK not. But if anything can be done against Google, Meta, Apple all ideas are welcome for the EU. Those don't pay enough taxes in the EU in relationship to the megaprofits they make and have no respect for the legal framework the EU stands for.
- Terry_Roll 4y agoPiggie in the middle submarine cables, not all go through the UK, but it is good to point out the covert politics & nationalism of entities providing tech services or infrastructure, strangely dominated by the US mil funded US tech sector. I wonder why? https://cryptome.org/fiber-weak.htm https://cryptome.org/fiber-weak.htm
- Iv 4y agoConservatives all over the world dream of setting up a chinese-style firewall in their countries. They are angry that it was first done by a clearly authoritarian regime which brings some resistance to the idea, but otherwise, in the name of fight against terrorism or child pornography, they would have set it up already.
- canadiantim 4y agoFrom what I can tell it’s more the progressive wing of most countries who are pushing for authoritarian censorship of the internet. Just look at Canada
- metadat 4y ago<Citation requested> Is this common knowledge? It's the first claim I've encountered of Canada attempting Internet censorship.
- zo1 4y agoI googled it and found Bill C-11. Not going to dig deeper into it and confirm details, but maybe you didn't hear about it for a reason?
- JacobThreeThree 4y agoIt's a big topic right now in Canada. Pre-Elon Twitter compared Canada's proposed regulations to North Korea and China. >Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator with the power to block specific websites is comparable to drastic actions used in authoritarian countries like China, North Korea and Iran. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-twitter-compared-liberal-governments-online-harms-plan-to-china-north/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-twitter-com...
- bigfudge 4y agoIt’s kind of you to say ‘even’ the uk could muster, but at this point functioning government seems a forlorn hope here.