I guess the slippery slope is only a fallacy until you want to come up with ridiculous conspiracy theories about Trump creating his own great firewall.
It's a big step to take that will likely bring out all of the UK broadcast networks against the government. I can see why he's reluctant to do it, but to my own mind, the bad from the BBC by now outweighs the good. Not that I won't miss the good, but such is life.
I've been predicting that social media will fracture into national ot regional silos because complying with the laws in various countries are often at odds with each other
The comments there had been so conservative leaning for the past several years and for the last few months it’s been full of nothing but anti-Trump crap.
I and every software / IT person I know have abandoned it in the last year or two. It's not worth the time. We only stayed with the site for so long because of the community.
Exactly. /. was, once upon a time, decent, and I included it in my rotation.
It slid downhill, but I did still check in every once in a while. But some time recently it passed my political-silly threshold. So I stopped going entirely. Which probably further contributed to the decline (in the same sense that a raindrop contributes to a storm).
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" - GIlmore
Considering that Chinese censorship could definitely considered damage, and it's China that's blocking non-CCP-Approved content, I'd hardly say that it's the US that's splitting the Internet.
Its not fucking rocket science, if your country has a government that can demand user data and information on a whim (with no cause/warrant) and that government is an opressive dictatorship then yes all apps and services from that country are "Untrustworthy"
The Great Firewall is one thing that China has done right. Giving our geopolitical rivals free access to each and every individual citizen via the Internet was a terrible idea.
No, it isn't surprising that they are doing this though. I'm just surprised that they waited so long, I guess it was to do with the recent actions against Tencent and such. Actions that should have come sooner.
The justification for taking action against TikTok is the potential for personal information to end up in the hands of the CCP. AFAIK we don't have evidence that it's actually happened, and I'm not certain it would be a crime if it did. The point is the mere possibility that it might happen is considered enough of a national security risk to move against it and that same logic applies to Epic.
I guess the slippery slope is only a fallacy until you want to come up with ridiculous conspiracy theories about Trump creating his own great firewall.
Ha, is this is a news piece or a collective prayer from the BBC?
defund the bbc, come on boris, time to do it
It's a big step to take that will likely bring out all of the UK broadcast networks against the government. I can see why he's reluctant to do it, but to my own mind, the bad from the BBC by now outweighs the good. Not that I won't miss the good, but such is life.
Not sure why everyone else would kick off. As far as I’m aware, ITV and everyone else would probably relish the opportunity of the BBC being defunded.
lets be real, we all know which one it is
More like they're gonna spread America's cheeks for Winnie the Pooh.
I've been predicting that social media will fracture into national ot regional silos because complying with the laws in various countries are often at odds with each other
Yup, like France threatening to fine Facebook for not deleting “hate speech” within 24 hours. I didn’t see any articles saying France’s actions threatened to break up the internet, though.
Ah yes, the classic "further entrench large companies then complain when you only have large companies" approach.
It's much more feasible for a giant company to enforce something like that - and to defend when it isn't - than some small website somewhere.
It also allows relatively easy false-flags of small companies.
Slashdot is having a hypocritical cow
The comments there had been so conservative leaning for the past several years and for the last few months it’s been full of nothing but anti-Trump crap.
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I and every software / IT person I know have abandoned it in the last year or two. It's not worth the time. We only stayed with the site for so long because of the community.
Exactly. /. was, once upon a time, decent, and I included it in my rotation.
It slid downhill, but I did still check in every once in a while. But some time recently it passed my political-silly threshold. So I stopped going entirely. Which probably further contributed to the decline (in the same sense that a raindrop contributes to a storm).
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" - GIlmore
Considering that Chinese censorship could definitely considered damage, and it's China that's blocking non-CCP-Approved content, I'd hardly say that it's the US that's splitting the Internet.
Its not fucking rocket science, if your country has a government that can demand user data and information on a whim (with no cause/warrant) and that government is an opressive dictatorship then yes all apps and services from that country are "Untrustworthy"
The Great Firewall is one thing that China has done right. Giving our geopolitical rivals free access to each and every individual citizen via the Internet was a terrible idea.
Disagree. The problem isn't that they have access, it's that silicon valley is allied with them.
That never would have happened in the first place if we had protected our tech sector properly.
No, it isn't surprising that they are doing this though. I'm just surprised that they waited so long, I guess it was to do with the recent actions against Tencent and such. Actions that should have come sooner.
Wonder why they haven't done anything about Epic yet. That's a company that needs to be torched.
The justification for taking action against TikTok is the potential for personal information to end up in the hands of the CCP. AFAIK we don't have evidence that it's actually happened, and I'm not certain it would be a crime if it did. The point is the mere possibility that it might happen is considered enough of a national security risk to move against it and that same logic applies to Epic.
Fuck China... That's all.
big black... company at it again
We should split the internet. Just like the iron curtain back then.