About the Online Safety Act in the UK and the Digital Services Act in Europe
Bender-Meme:
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Everytime I hear about some draconian internet law it’s always coming out of the UK.
I have a long-running theory that we’re the US’s testing ground for authoritarian nonsense. If they roll it out here and it doesn’t get too much resistance, it’ll show up in the US in the next 3-5 years.
It’s Foucault’s boomerang, but the last beta before bringing it home.
I could see that being the case, though the US has been testing things in the same vein itself.
India was the traditional testing ground. If she is no longer that, than US hegemony has definitely weakened.
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“What we are witnessing right now is the death of the free internet and the birth of a new digital dictatorship. No longer can we be trusted to decide for ourselves what content is appropriate or correct. Everything must instead be filtered through the state’s definition of ‘safety,’ telling us what is safe to say, see, or believe. Under the guise of protecting children and fighting ‘hate,’ governments are creating the most comprehensive censorship apparatus the West has ever seen.”
They’re not done. Making VPNs illegal is next. Another stupid law to make sure people aren’t bypassing the other stupid law.
they finally passed it.
they will keep trying on other countries until they succeed too.
Funny how freeze peach sublimates directly into censorship vapor the moment liberals lose their cultural hegemony.
