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Personally I don't think China is a good comparison in this case. Yes China has the great firewall but they also a highly top-down government whereas the UK us
by _fat_santa 1y ago
Personally I don't think China is a good comparison in this case. Yes China has the great firewall but they also a highly top-down government whereas the UK us much more like the US.
Beyond straight government control, there's also the politics of all of it. China being a one party system doesn't really care if something is popular with the public but with the UK's parliamentary system, one wrong move and your party gets voted out of power.
- gruez 1y ago>Beyond straight government control, there's also the politics of all of it. China being a one party system doesn't really care if something is popular with the public but with the UK's parliamentary system, one wrong move and your party gets voted out of power. But apparently that wasn't enough to stop the online safety act from being implemented in the first place? If voters okay with sites requiring intrusive id/face scans to access 18+ sites, they're probably also fine with ISPs requiring 18+ verification to use VPNs.