realthing

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   by realthing 8y ago

   No it isnt. The whole point of the internet is that it exists apart from nations law. its in the name - world wide web.
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   by realthing 8y ago

   One would imagine this has far less to do with data rendering and more data indexing and filtering (web-crawling access). If you read the link, Schmidts comments related to the bifurcation of the internet, he gives a simple example of two s
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   by realthing 8y ago

   Huge tangent indeed. If only someone would open a thread or mailing list to discuss the idea . . . The harrowing thing is, it really does look as though we were / are in the wild west days of internet comms. The more tech savy business
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   by realthing 8y ago

   Yes, but you are missing my point. Link tax is not censorship in and of itself, but it does hinder the sharing of information, the cornerstone of the "information highway". Removing a plugin, or any tooling for that matter, is aki
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   by realthing 8y ago

   here we go -- gearing up to the decade of censorship 2020 and beyond . . . between this and the EU link sharing tax, I am beginning to wonder if the internet really is the last bastion to freedom of speech
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   by realthing 8y ago

   I suppose one way of modeling a solution to this space is to look back at goold 'ol fashioned RPC's