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Perhaps the MPAA/RIAA/China/Iran should set up their own internet and regulate however they want.
by tosseraccount 15y ago
Perhaps the MPAA/RIAA/China/Iran should set up their own internet and regulate however they want.
- ohashi 15y agoChina kind of already does. Close off a lot of foreign major competitors, block objectionable sites, have domestic ones replace them which tie into the government.
- snowwrestler 15y agoExactly. My impression is that the U.N. negotiations are largely noise, since nations will regulate things as they please within their own borders anyway.
- hastur 15y agoThat's funny, but I think putting MPAA and RIAA in one line with China and Iran is actually not such a huge stretch. After all, how much difference is there between a Chinese kid being thrown in jail for a blog post critical of the communist party and a UK kid being extradited like a terrorist to the US for linking to some pirated content? The security apparatus that was set up to fight terrorism is constantly expanding its scope to protect particular interests.