How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix

Re:How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix by onetimeusename on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:14PM (#27224934)

Creating an island nation to evade laws won't work. It's the same thing as trying to evade tax laws but for content laws.

What has happened to tax havens is they are labeled tax non-compliant and then an IGO effectively embargoes them unless they turn over all tax records and come into compliance with their laws. So the same thing would apply to creating an island nation to evade some cryptography export law, or content restriction.

I don't think convincing the respective governments with arguments will work either because the incentive they have to require censorship on internet content that they are not mentioning is that they can censor it for their own purposes. For example, Russia is considering blocking Twitter entirely for having illegal content (you know what I mean by this) but I think everyone knows that's not the real reason they are considering blocking Twitter.

I don't know what the best solution is.

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Re:How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix by einpoklum on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:24PM (#27225082)

Well, corporations do evade taxes using island nations and other such machinery, and mostly get away with it.

It probably won't work for "just people", without strong lobby powers and corrupting financial temptations dangled before politicians.

IMHO there's no running away from resisting/circumventing oppressive legislation in our social surroundings, not by looking for far-away havens.

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