They don't fail because they are lazy. They fail because their goal was impossible from the beginning. There is no way for them to take control of the entire internet without already having control of the entire internet.
The internet treats censorship like any other damaged connection and routes around it by design. The only country on the planet that could maybe pull off what they were attempting is the US, because we are hosting most of the major servers, and we have the military (edit: and economic) might to threaten other countries into compliance. And even then, Russia and China would be happy to do whatever it took to undermine the efforts.
The UK can't even reliably keep Ireland in line, let alone push China, Russia, and the US around. It was sisyphean from the jump.
People will keep dismissing the issue as more and more sites become unavailable, as more and more laws keep getting enacted that allow the gov to do what they want with citizens and whilst it doesn't mean they will go after everyone it will mean that they could easily do it.
Ok chicken little. Until the US pushes for it and it somehow manages to survive a first amendment challenge in the Supreme Court, there isn't anything to worry about. The laws that Europe passes only affect Europeans, just like always.
Why are so many of you convinced that the US is just going to roll over and go along with this shit? It is literally banned in our constitution.
This will probably cripple the re-nationalize everything crowd for a long time.
Because if the UK gov still had nationalised telecoms infrastructure, they probably could've immediately dove into North Korean style national intranet madness.
It's the same with the outrage over the Collective Shout whores censoring itch.io et al. The only reason, we're not seeing massive hysteria over "alt right nazi gamer chuds harassing women" right now, is because a lot of the axed games were gay shit.
Remember, the UK population DID bring covid rules down easily by doing non compliance after a year, they're very good at it when they reach peak 'I don't give a fuck' mentality.
I work for a household name web company based in the UK. Most people I work with are not even aware that this act has passed, nor the controversy around it. Because the company was not aware, it hasn't done anything to accommodate for the act's requirements.
I don't know if this reflects poorly on my company's regulatory apparatus, or the governments inability to communicate this act to businesses.
Regardless, the British attitude of 'Keep calm, carry on' is a double egded sword that has both positive and negative effects.
I think William and Kate had a few children. So either him or one of his offspring, who are still too young to even have sex and therefore can't be pedos.
Of course it doesn’t make sense, the only purpose of a law like this is to ensure you have reason to come down on anyone at anytime for whatever reason you want.
And here I sit flabbergasted that people only complain about that now. I've been getting buried in captchas on archive.is/.vn/.ph/... for at least 2 years now, likely due to my VPN (Proton) - it stops if I disconnect from it. I guess they're doing the same thing to more providers now.
This strikes me as an extremely childish way to install a dictatorship, but Britain seems to be a nation of overgrown children that are OK with fat unarmed cops in safety vests running around arresting people for memes like some kind of Willy Wonka death squad. I hope they figure it out.
and in the USA the people are happy with literal gun totting murderous police and politicians that crap all over the constitution while sucking off big business.
So all the government has done is:
•Teach a MASSIVE amount of the population that openly disobeying authority DOESN'T get punished when you do it together.
• Draw the ire of larger, more powerful American businesses let alone government because their censorship is affecting them.
• Slowly cripple UK tech innovation
• Make kids more aware of workarounds.
The only good thing is that the authoritarians are such lazy dumbasses that they ruin their own argument and implementation.
I'm going to laugh so hard if UK gets sanctioned over this.
I think they're ALREADY being sued by Apple and Wikipedia.
They don't fail because they are lazy. They fail because their goal was impossible from the beginning. There is no way for them to take control of the entire internet without already having control of the entire internet.
The internet treats censorship like any other damaged connection and routes around it by design. The only country on the planet that could maybe pull off what they were attempting is the US, because we are hosting most of the major servers, and we have the military (edit: and economic) might to threaten other countries into compliance. And even then, Russia and China would be happy to do whatever it took to undermine the efforts.
The UK can't even reliably keep Ireland in line, let alone push China, Russia, and the US around. It was sisyphean from the jump.
People will keep dismissing the issue as more and more sites become unavailable, as more and more laws keep getting enacted that allow the gov to do what they want with citizens and whilst it doesn't mean they will go after everyone it will mean that they could easily do it.
Ok chicken little. Until the US pushes for it and it somehow manages to survive a first amendment challenge in the Supreme Court, there isn't anything to worry about. The laws that Europe passes only affect Europeans, just like always.
Why are so many of you convinced that the US is just going to roll over and go along with this shit? It is literally banned in our constitution.
This will probably cripple the re-nationalize everything crowd for a long time.
Because if the UK gov still had nationalised telecoms infrastructure, they probably could've immediately dove into North Korean style national intranet madness.
Ah, so it's not censorship that's the issue. It's that THEIR posts get censored.
It's the same with the outrage over the Collective Shout whores censoring itch.io et al. The only reason, we're not seeing massive hysteria over "alt right nazi gamer chuds harassing women" right now, is because a lot of the axed games were gay shit.
They're loud, and they actually participate in the political process. Of course they'd be listened to.
I'm impressed at the scale of the mass non-compliance.
Remember, the UK population DID bring covid rules down easily by doing non compliance after a year, they're very good at it when they reach peak 'I don't give a fuck' mentality.
Only after Boris and his party/cabinet were repeatedly shown flat out ignoring the rules they were imposing on everyone else, then lying about it.
I work for a household name web company based in the UK. Most people I work with are not even aware that this act has passed, nor the controversy around it. Because the company was not aware, it hasn't done anything to accommodate for the act's requirements.
I don't know if this reflects poorly on my company's regulatory apparatus, or the governments inability to communicate this act to businesses.
Regardless, the British attitude of 'Keep calm, carry on' is a double egded sword that has both positive and negative effects.
I think we should just sanction the UK.
60% tariff from America should do the job.
Or some regime change.
How far down the British royal family do you have to go to find someone who is neither a pedo nor a Boomer?
I think William and Kate had a few children. So either him or one of his offspring, who are still too young to even have sex and therefore can't be pedos.
could've been on the receiving end already tho...damn, now i need a drink.
They're trying to pass censorship laws here instead.
I mean, it's also absolutely my position that foreign lobbying should be banned.
That's not what they're doing.
Of course it doesn’t make sense, the only purpose of a law like this is to ensure you have reason to come down on anyone at anytime for whatever reason you want.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3l0e4vr0ko
Unarchived link to bypass the captcha.
What's with that all of a sudden?
It's annoying as fuck is what it is.
And here I sit flabbergasted that people only complain about that now. I've been getting buried in captchas on archive.is/.vn/.ph/... for at least 2 years now, likely due to my VPN (Proton) - it stops if I disconnect from it. I guess they're doing the same thing to more providers now.
This strikes me as an extremely childish way to install a dictatorship, but Britain seems to be a nation of overgrown children that are OK with fat unarmed cops in safety vests running around arresting people for memes like some kind of Willy Wonka death squad. I hope they figure it out.
and in the USA the people are happy with literal gun totting murderous police and politicians that crap all over the constitution while sucking off big business.
Or better explained, you should censor but only what we tell you to censor and not our propaganda.
Hm. Can one invest in proxy tech? That's gonna be a booming.