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nickslaughter02 ◴[] No.44982831[source]
> Two days later, US Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson warned big tech firms they could be violating US law if they weakened privacy and data security requirements by complying with international laws such as the Online Safety Act.

How will this work with chat control?

> "If Ofcom doesn't think this will be enough to prevent significant harm, it can even ask that ISPs be ordered to block UK access."

If you want to enforce stupid laws the burden should be upon you.

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speedylight ◴[] No.44983860[source]
I think eventually we will reach a point where laws like the Online Safety Act become so prevalent that it is basically impossible to comply with all of them simultaneously and still have a unified internet across the globe. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10 years or so every country has its own version of the internet only intended for their own people.
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firesteelrain ◴[] No.44983896[source]
We do still have limited entry and exit points to other Countries internets. You could end up with Great Firewalls across the globe if it got bad enough. It doesn’t deter VPNs though
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greenavocado ◴[] No.44985738[source]
They will put you behind bars for years for using VPNs once they win.
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sidewndr46 ◴[] No.44986392[source]
Who is 'they' here?
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sejje ◴[] No.44986493{3}[source]
The authoritarians locking down the internet, not sure why you need to ask
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hellojesus ◴[] No.44988077{4}[source]
They can try.

> And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

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greenavocado ◴[] No.44989223{5}[source]
Would have. Should have. Could have. The reality is the authoritarians won for decades.
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1. hellojesus ◴[] No.44990522{6}[source]
Yee, but we haven't yet given this fight up. And I plan to never.