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A comment on Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls. Parent comment

Re:Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms ... by aaplok on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:50PM (#29366028)
> Leave the internet out of your politics, please.

Your comment would have a lot more value without this cheap attack. The article and all the comments are about the politics of the internet. OP has the right to express their opinion, however wrong they might feel to you.

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Re:Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms ... by ggm on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:31PM (#29366166)
The wild west is a really bad metaphor for internet governance at any time. Firstly by sheer weight of numbers it's China and India who carry the users. Secondly it never had a deregulated state, ever, since before ARPAnet telecommunications were fully regulated state or post monopolised regulated by the outcomes of the RBOC lawsuits.

This "we need more wild west" is a fantasy. It ignores pretty much all current governance and community consensus processes everywhere. Not even John Perry Barlow believed his own quote applied to all things all the time.

The IETF is not the wild west. IANA is not the wild west. BGP speaking is not the wild west.

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