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It's a mad rush to hamper the internet with a continuous stream of horribly broken and harmful regulations. I don't see much hope for the future of a free and o
by 20after4 3y ago
It's a mad rush to hamper the internet with a continuous stream of horribly broken and harmful regulations. I don't see much hope for the future of a free and open Internet.
- delfinom 3y agoBy design, the base laws of the US make it hard to implement an authoritarian regime. But sprinkle some think of the children on top and bingo, pathway to North Korea opened.
- euroderf 3y agoNow it's gotta be think-of-the-kids, cos the War on Drugs has been won by the Maoists.
- mindslight 3y agoThe digital surveillance industry fended off any sort of straightforward general regulation so long (eg privacy and antitrust), that now the backlash has built into a witchhunt that's just lashing out at whatever social ill the yellow press focuses on this week. It's essentially a double win for these companies that are content with high barriers to entry and regulatory capture, but a grave destruction of individual communications freedom.