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If you want a vision of the future for the internet, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. with apologies to George Orwell
by mjwalshe 14y ago
If you want a vision of the future for the internet, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. with apologies to George Orwell
- debacle 14y agoI disagree. Censorship of the Internet will never work. It might stamp out the fires for a short time, but within weeks or months encryption will be the new status quo.
- mjwalshe 14y agoAnd then Crypto is regulated - I worked on a project for BT Worldwide where we had a matrix of what what and wasn't allowed to do. In France we had to deny access to some info as we where not legally allowed to use crypto over dialup. Oh and Burma had the death penaty for some uses of cryptography - luckly we did not have a JV in Burma
- debacle 14y agoArtificial means can only delay the progress of ideas and technology for so long. I realize that crypto and the export of crypto is regulated severely in many countries, but how long can that last?
- InclinedPlane 14y agoNever be 100% successful != never work.
- mjwalshe 14y agoDoesn't have to be 100% sucsessful