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.
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.