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A comment on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control. Parent comment

Re:Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control by rdevilla on Saturday March 21, 2026 @08:09PM (#47472938)
Whatever you think the scale of surveillance is, I assure you it is 100x worse.

North America is rooted. There is no recovery plan.

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Re:Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control by timschmidt on Saturday March 21, 2026 @08:12PM (#47472960)
My understanding is that Abraham Lincoln literally had all the nation's telegraph lines routed through DC during the civil war, and AT&T has been an honorary branch of the US government ever since.
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Re:Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control by rdevilla on Saturday March 21, 2026 @08:16PM (#47472995)
That tradition was carried into the modern era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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Re:Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control by timschmidt on Saturday March 21, 2026 @08:18PM (#47473010)
I'm aware. And the GP you're responding to's username is echelon. I think they're aware as well.
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