Say Goodbye to the Internet as We Know It
Say Goodbye to the Internet as We Know It
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Say Goodbye to the Internet as We Know It
About the Online Safety Act in the UK and the Digital Services Act in Europe
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I've already said goodbye to "the internet" 3 times. Social media destroyed web 2.0, which destroyed the original web, which destroyed the original Usenet and telnet internet.
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i'm looking forward to the more decentralized internet that's brewing up here.
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coming from a conservative media outlet instantly tanks any claim's credibility imo
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I have read maybe half, and the cringe in this piece is intense.
Imagine plauding
Musk’s commitment to maintaining free speech on X.I mean, there are problem with the DSA and there are plenty with Online Safety Act, but maybe try to SIMP for fascist Big Tech a little more discreetly?
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The UK populace doesn't get nearly enough shit for all of the bullshit they have caused. They are the fucking Alabama of Europe.
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The ruling British class, sure. The average British citizen is impacted by this, rather than enacting the change though.
It's kind of like how a select few people in the states decide healthcare shouldn't be affordable, and everyone else just has to accept it; despite living in one of the richest countries in the history of the human race.
The reality is both nations have the same group of people pulling the strings behind the scenes; anyone who believes they have any say in either country is either not paying attention, or an idiot.
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You can tell by the way their teeth are 🧐
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The 80s called, they want their weird jokes back.
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"What we are witnessing right now is the death of the free internet and the birth of a new digital dictatorship. No longer can we be trusted to decide for ourselves what content is appropriate or correct. Everything must instead be filtered through the state’s definition of ‘safety,’ telling us what is safe to say, see, or believe. Under the guise of protecting children and fighting ‘hate,’ governments are creating the most comprehensive censorship apparatus the West has ever seen."
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Nothing to do with the states definition of safety, but just an excuse to do more surveillance and collect more data.
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I can't help but think this could have been avoided if people would take some responsibility and turn on parental controls for their kids. 90% of the shit they're trying to "protect the children" from would be invisible and they wouldn't have this trojan horse stuffed with fascism.
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Same shit coming to Australia
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We're so fucked and people don't even realize that.
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The enshittification of life as we know it.
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they finally passed it.
they will keep trying on other countries until they succeed too.
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Everytime I hear about some draconian internet law it's always coming out of the UK.
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I have a long-running theory that we're the US's testing ground for authoritarian nonsense. If they roll it out here and it doesn't get too much resistance, it'll show up in the US in the next 3-5 years.
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It's Foucault's boomerang, but the last beta before bringing it home.
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India was the traditional testing ground. If she is no longer that, than US hegemony has definitely weakened.
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Bender-Meme:
*Selfhosters: I build my own Internet With Blackjack and Hookers
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You joke but it would be great if we could restart the web. No bots, no corps, you have to be a nerd to get in. Maybe some specific protocol where you need a certain modem to access it, to keep other people out...
Maybe this is what the dark web is? I haven't dabbled.
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Selfhosted hookers, like Gator:
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this community is dead, the day Canada, U.S. and Eu asks lemmy to "verify" our ages
or we're all on a vpn connected to a server in ??? Mongolia?
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They're not done. Making VPNs illegal is next. Another stupid law to make sure people aren't bypassing the other stupid law.
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Europeanconservative, really?
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It's encouraging to see support for anti-censorship across the political spectrum
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Wait I don't understand. Did they cancel https? How about ftp? Ssh?
Or are they requiring some half baked bullshit in a browser to catch the lowest common denominator?
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Half-baked bullshit. You can get around it with a VPN or a copy of Death Stranding 2
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I haven't click to submit anything at any point, does it just ask for an image?
I'm fine with looking like him as far as porn is concerned. Probably help me in fact, lol.
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Personally I believe the world was a better place before the Internet existed. It was more personal, more local. The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet and are actively damaging the world for their own personal gain. Good mental health is almost non-existent for those who are always online - and that is a purposeful construct so that they will be online more and create even more revenue for the tech billionaires. The initial romantic notion that the internet would provide education and information and connection has been dwarfed by the damage it has caused. The most 'internet raised generation - Gen Z' is notoriously disconnected and isolated compared to previous generations. In short, if the Internet ceased to exist tomorrow, a decade from now the world would probably be a better place.
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The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet and are actively damaging the world for their own personal gain.
I hate to tell you but there were billionaires and multi-millionaires way before the internet and they were damaging the world horrendously for greed and personal gain. They even have this system structured around allowing them to do that called capitalism.
So no the internet didn't create that. Capitalism created that. Just as it created the climate change denial oil industry and the people who made money off of destroying the planet with that and would still be doing so without the internet. Just as it made dishonest press barons who loved Nazi Germany such as Randolph Hearst way before the internet existed and for a more modern example Rupert Murdoch. Just as before that it created incentives to hide and denial tobacco caused cancer or that asbestos caused cancer and other diseases or that lead poisoned us especially children. And on and on. Or the Triangle Shirt-waist fire and thousands of incidents just like that around the world where people are killed in poorly maintained factories kept that way out of greed. Or companies that pump poison into the water and air because it's cheaper. I could go on forever.
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I thought I was the only one pondering on this. It's been a wild ride and I'm so glad I got to take part in the 90s, when web 1.0 was wild and free. What a blast that was.
But it's over now, we've ruined it, like we ruin everything, and I hope soon we'll all be collectively ready as a species to dance on the grave of our dead internet.
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The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet
No. You had tech billionaires before the internet as well.
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They just were less tech and less billionaire, but they were there too.
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I had such high hopes for the internet, I met and spoke with people from all over the world, real life was obsolete so I put all my time into being online because it was so much easier to talk to people and make friends online back then. I made a huge mistake.
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Yeah. I can't stay away completely, but it is unquestionable how much better I am in general when I spend more free time outside versus in front of a screen.
Edit: I don't mean to make screens sound like the bad guy. It's more about engaging all of your senses and interacting with 100% of your immediate environment, rather than keeping your vision and mind focused on the 24/7 fire hose of only the 0.001% most potent triple-distilled negativity sourced from the entire fucking planet.
The internet is like having omnipotence but only for the knowledge that messes with our brains. We don't get to see all the nice shit from across the planet 50x a day.
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Funny how freeze peach sublimates directly into censorship vapor the moment liberals lose their cultural hegemony.
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Dude you're on the instance where it is forbidden in worldnews to say "Fuck (a particular country which will remain nameless)".
Literally the only one. You can say "Fuck the United States" or "Fuck Israel" everywhere on Lemmy, or near enough, which of course is as it should be. But if I start stepping on the wrong massive state actors' toes from one particular instance...
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You can write fuck China on Lemmy.ml if it's relevant and motivated. The difference is that it's always obvious why the USA and Israel should be condemned. I think China's Israel stance is super weak, and I doubt I'd get mod pushback for saying that in an article about how China keeps selling genocide-equipment to Israel during a genocide. Or about how China is pushing for a two-state solution instead of saying Israel is illegitimate and should be dismantled.
If you go "Fuck Cameroon" on an unrelated post, for example this one, a mod would rightly tell you to be civil or at least explain yourself. And if you then justify yourself on a basis of white supremacy or conspiracy theories as you are bound to do, then that reasoning will be rejected.
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The difference is that communists accept the need for censorship and are open about why some ideas need to be suppressed. However, liberals hypocritically claim to stand for free speech and claim this is the key differentiating factor between liberal democracies and socialist systems, but only tolerate speech that they deem acceptable.
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