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It's incredible how national security became the channel through which to make the US internet more like China's state controlled one.
by ETH_start 4y ago
It's incredible how national security became the channel through which to make the US internet more like China's state controlled one.
- indymike 4y agoNational security is usually the justification for oppression, followed by "the common good".
- ETH_start 4y agoNational security is a subset of "the common good" argument, but one more focused on averting harm, than improving the state of society.
- arcticbull 4y agoThe only way you'd come to that conclusion is if you'd never been to the PRC. The SDN list has nothing, and I do mean nothing, to do with internet censorship.
- ETH_start 4y agoThis is nothing compared to China-level internet censorship, but barring Americans from interacting with a decentralized protocol that a contract address on the SDN list resolves to, is censorship. And the restrictions will have to massively escalate, possibly to CCP-levels (with restrictions on end-user access strong encryption) to effectively enforce such prohibitions, as cryptocurrency becomes more ubiquitous.