Re:Last-minute Government amendment seeks to muzzle DPC crit...
by pessimizer on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:42AM
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> What is it with English Speaking countries and like the UK, US, Australia, now Ireland?
It's a totalitarian reaction to the internet. It used to be enough to wield control over the media in general to control the public, but that can't be done anymore. They have national security, hate speech, copyright and child pornography laws that they can try to replace that with, but they have to be forced through some sort of democratic process in the west that can lead to them being noticed. The last resort is training people to be brownshirts and pinkertons, but there's a reason brownshirts and pinkertons are sent into crowds with clubs - they're not too smart. It doesn't work on the internet.
There's a need to shore up speech laws, anti-encryption laws, and regulation on private speech platforms so they can simply jail or fine people into silence.
It's a totalitarian reaction to the internet. It used to be enough to wield control over the media in general to control the public, but that can't be done anymore. They have national security, hate speech, copyright and child pornography laws that they can try to replace that with, but they have to be forced through some sort of democratic process in the west that can lead to them being noticed. The last resort is training people to be brownshirts and pinkertons, but there's a reason brownshirts and pinkertons are sent into crowds with clubs - they're not too smart. It doesn't work on the internet.
There's a need to shore up speech laws, anti-encryption laws, and regulation on private speech platforms so they can simply jail or fine people into silence.