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I totally disagree. In fact, I would say the only thing that's saved us thus far is that those in power don't understand technology. If they would have been a
by jbjohns 15y ago
I totally disagree. In fact, I would say the only thing that's saved us thus far is that those in power don't understand technology. If they would have been able to see what the internet was capable of, they would never have allowed it to be so open. When the day comes that the power hungry know technology as well as we do the real fight will begin.
- joe_the_user 15y agoYes... The thing about "understanding" and "misunderstanding" is that since any censorship approach would break the web, any effort at censorship benefits from "playing dumb", not describing the complexity of the situation and instead reducing things to simple claims like "we need to stop the bad stuff on the net..." The one thing that might help us in twenty years is that public might be sophisticated enough to not be as easily fooled by such claims. On the other hand, seventy years of an automobile-based society has not made everyone into auto mechanics...