> part of a wave of legislation around the world that seeks to control the internet
This wave of legislation was always inevitable; the internet has no intrinsic controls for content, it doesn't really even know that content exists. So it quickly became a place where anything goes ("became" might be wrong; I guess it was always like that).
Authoritarian people have opinions about what can and can't be said. It's not surprising that those people have all kinds of problems with the internet. Unfortunately for them, there's not much they can do about it; apart from supressing internet access, people are going to use the internet.
Oh, sure, you can shut down websites by authoritarian diktat (e.g DNS changes, hosting takeover etc.) But the internet is bigger than the WWW, and I don't think the authoritarians have the means to control this animal; it can't be decapitated because it has no head (it's sort of a Hydra).
Bad stuff happens on the internet. Bad stuff happens in schoolgrounds, too. I got punched and knocked down once, just stepping out of my own front-door. You can't stop all of the bad things.
This wave of legislation was always inevitable; the internet has no intrinsic controls for content, it doesn't really even know that content exists. So it quickly became a place where anything goes ("became" might be wrong; I guess it was always like that).
Authoritarian people have opinions about what can and can't be said. It's not surprising that those people have all kinds of problems with the internet. Unfortunately for them, there's not much they can do about it; apart from supressing internet access, people are going to use the internet.
Oh, sure, you can shut down websites by authoritarian diktat (e.g DNS changes, hosting takeover etc.) But the internet is bigger than the WWW, and I don't think the authoritarians have the means to control this animal; it can't be decapitated because it has no head (it's sort of a Hydra).
Bad stuff happens on the internet. Bad stuff happens in schoolgrounds, too. I got punched and knocked down once, just stepping out of my own front-door. You can't stop all of the bad things.