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The BarefootHealer's avatar

Coming soon to every country near you.

This is how you shut down the "unshutable" internet.

They knew when they released it that the internet could actually be something that they could not control, despite lots of preexisting gates already in place, giving a very sanitised version. Hemce the boogedy-boo narratives of "dark web" spread to the masses. Not saying there's not bad $#!@ available there, but like real crime, it's massively distorted in the media! But they never dreamed how disruptive tech wise even the sanitised version could get, because it connects people. People are way harder to manipulate when connected in groups, in face to face, but even online it's still hard. But they figured out by 2012 that they could shut it down through censorship, and "social safety" laws.😐

The future internet will be basically marketing/news 24/7. All they have achieved is pushing more people into underground or back into person to person meetups.🤦‍♀️😐

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Roger Gambba-Jones's avatar

Really difficult one this.

Most right minded people have been screaming at the top of their voices for someone to do something about the vile and twisted material that these companies have been pushing/allowing to appear online.

However, as we see with so much that our politicians and civil servants do, what starts as a piece of common sense law on day one, ends up as a of piece of gold plated legislation and a nightmare for those subjected to it.

We saw this happen time and time again with various pieces of legislation from Brussels.

Red top tabloid loved to ridicule the EU for imposing yet more ludicrous and pointless rules on the British public.

In truth it was our own government taking routine guidance, or clarification of existing legislation applying to all 28 EU countries and gold plating it, turning it into a major burden for British businesses in the process.

My experience of this relates to waste and a fire retardant chemical used in foam.

At one point councils were close to either ceasing their domestic collection service for white goods such as fridges and freezers. They would now need a separate vehicle from all other domestic goods, due to the insulation foam they contained not being sealed in. Apparently it gives off some sort of gas that can contaminate materials such as soft furnishings.

Some bright young thing at DEFRA had read a report and written their own report to some other less bright and not so young thing, called a government minister.

This culminated in DEFRA sending out a consultation document which set alarm bells ringing within every council and waste management company in the UK. luckily, the results of that consultation saw the whole issue moved to the pending tray.

So now we have a draconian online safety act. This act should be protecting the most vulnerable people in our society; our children and stopping some of the more gullible and impressionable from getting sucked into seeing and doing bad things.

Instead, a shadowy left wing elite group of control freaks, seeking to suppress anything that threatens to disrupt the flow of cash into their coffers, have decided to highjack this act and gold plated it for their own purposes - suppression of criticism and pushback.

Reform better add this one to their list of things to be shredded in the first 100 days.

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