Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
by iforgotpassword on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:38AM
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Too bad everyone thinks they are the true free world and everyone else got it wrong.
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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
by phicoh on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:47AM
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With end-to-end encryption it is easy to tell: the free world is where end-to-end encryption is unrestricted.
Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
by peterwwillis on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:38PM
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Actually the free world is all non-Communist countries. It's a propaganda term invented by the west (literally they were interchangeable, "free world" and "western world"). You can still see this influence as the use of the phrase "the leader of the free world" is exclusively held for the President of the United States.
The "free world" as a broader idea is still kind of useless in the modern world. Your government may not have made end-to-end encryption illegal (yet) but as private corporations actually run everything that people use, they get to impose their own will and determine your practical "freedom". There's no law preventing Apple from changing its encryption technology.