UK Govt Threatens to Ban Twitter And Potentially Jail Elon Musk If He Allows Free Speech
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Don't threaten me with a good time, UK (and EU). I'm personally of the belief that perhaps every continent, if not every country, should have its own personal internet. Means outside powers have less of a chance to meddle in the affairs of others. Also, it's up to YOU to enforce your own damn laws within your own damn borders. No one else is obligated to heed your crumbling nation's laws.
I heard a fun idea that various peoples should intentionally make their technology incompatible with everyone else. Everything from bolts to computer architecture would be as diverse as power sockets.
Suppossedly, railroad standards were different in different nations to prevent an invader from taking control of one end of a line and blitzing through your land. Tech could learn a thing or two.
That was sometimes a consideration in rail standards. Other times, it was politics or nationalism or simply because that's what they built. In the case of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Hungarians liked to assert that they were separate and rail gauge was one of the ways they did it, which was a bit of a problem for Austrian logistics in WW1.
That sounds like a great thing.
All these threats from different governments are pointless. Musk already said Twitter would follow the law of countries they operate in. After they had a discussion even that Saudi prince is no longer opposed to him owning it.
Which kinda sucks, considering he's a "free speech absolutist" not being able to talk to britbongs about their Muslim rape gangs kinda undermines what he wants.
Oh, we can talk to them, they just don't have a loicense to be able to hear it.
right now in USA we're supposed to have 1st amendment free speech but private company twitter can censor, a new owner Musk can choose not to censor because that'd make more profits. They of the board censor and ban conservatives because they're woke but it's costing shareholders money, advertisers pay less with less people on it to see ads. Other countries don't have a 1st amendment so their govt censors and it'd be hard for Musk to stop that.
The global internet is the authority-smearing/broadening mechanism for globalism, like insurance is the smearing/broadening mechanism for socialism. Collectivization and borderlessness is a desirable feature... to the left.
Can you elaborate on that?
Sure. Sharing risk by choice (insurance) is a gateway drug to sharing risk by force (socialism). The steps to the collective:
offer voluntary risk mitigation (property insurances, russia)
mandate it thru legislation (car insurances, india)
nationalize it (obamacare, US, middle east)
constitutionalize it (socialisms, europe)
enforce it via unaccountable NGOs or the like (africa, canada, mexico, other americas)
punish opt-out (gulags, australia, DC)
kill non-participants (communisms, national socialisms, china, ukraine)
The examples are probably squiggie, but it illustrates the point well enough.