Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou...
by codetrotter on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:03AM
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> Pay to send companies actual traffic? Pay to be allowed to use the basic building-block of the world wide web on the world wide web?
It's absolute madness.
Some people say that you can't solve political problems with technology but at this point it seems to me that politicians are ruining the web and there is no stopping them by political means. So it will have to be a technological solution. We need strong anonymization and strong decentralization to become the default.
The rules that are being put in place here are very dangerous to democracy. It limits the dissemination of information. You don't need to believe that there is any "evil" intent (I don't think there is, I think it's just greed on the part of businesses and lack of understanding on the part of the politicians) to see that once these limitations come into effect it becomes easier to lie to people and to control them.
We are setting ourselves up for fascist governments to be able to rise and it seems that most people don't even care :(
Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou...
by ravar on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:05PM
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Listening to Yanis Varoufakis talk about what Greece went through you get the sense that what they have on the Europe wide level isn't exactly democracy.
It's absolute madness.
Some people say that you can't solve political problems with technology but at this point it seems to me that politicians are ruining the web and there is no stopping them by political means. So it will have to be a technological solution. We need strong anonymization and strong decentralization to become the default.
The rules that are being put in place here are very dangerous to democracy. It limits the dissemination of information. You don't need to believe that there is any "evil" intent (I don't think there is, I think it's just greed on the part of businesses and lack of understanding on the part of the politicians) to see that once these limitations come into effect it becomes easier to lie to people and to control them.
We are setting ourselves up for fascist governments to be able to rise and it seems that most people don't even care :(