Re:U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for har...
by mschuster91 on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:27AM
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Can we all please stop electing politicians that understand nothing about the Internet?
This runs in the same vein as the "terrorism filters" that the EU plans to introduce after the "upload filters". They want to revert public discourse to the "old" model with newspapers as moderating gatekeepers and to kill independent (and free) venues.
This is not about terrorism, porn or "national security", this is about re-entering the Middle Ages. And the problem is that thanks to the ultimatively arrogant "disruption" culture the big tech companies are in a defensive position now and not an offensive one.
This runs in the same vein as the "terrorism filters" that the EU plans to introduce after the "upload filters". They want to revert public discourse to the "old" model with newspapers as moderating gatekeepers and to kill independent (and free) venues.
This is not about terrorism, porn or "national security", this is about re-entering the Middle Ages. And the problem is that thanks to the ultimatively arrogant "disruption" culture the big tech companies are in a defensive position now and not an offensive one.