and these geographic censorship plans are the same way. they can make a bunch of sound and fury but in the end it won't work. we don't have the ability to reliably and accurately block people based on political boards on the current internet
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and no one is yet suggesting we build a new internet that'll be easier to censor. I frankly don't believe that's possible. I've been a government contractor before. I don't think they could build an internet that would let them censor like that and still have it work.
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 169 10 • view
This is all true and real. But I wouldn’t be surprised if my ISP sent me an email tomorrow warning me that we will be switching over to the Patriot Internet this year and many websites will no longer work unless approved by Governor Abbott’s Office of Internet Safety. Because it’ll just happen.
aug 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Agreed. State and national level censoring and firewalls may be impractical for stopping 100% of all "undesirable" traffic... but it doesn't need to. It just has to stop *enough* to slow and stigmatize the free flow of info. Someone finding a workaround does not mean everyone does.
aug 24, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
nah build an internet to do the opposite to be so hard to censor and control it might as well be super piratey! Hide servers up in orbit! Hide servers in the mountains! Hide the sumbitches in the oceans and up Bob's ass!
aug 23, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
so yeah: internet censorship like this is a bad idea (like, you know, all censorship) but this kind is always going to be a fractal disaster, because it's just not technologically possible for it to work correctly.
aug 23, 2025, 9:28 pm • 202 12 • view
This reads like frickin’ Hebrew chiasmus poetry, and I am here for it!
aug 24, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
The issue is, if you censor people scream "CENSORSHIP !" but if you don't people scream "WHY CAN MY KIDS SEE DEAD BODIES ???". There's no way to appease either.
aug 23, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 1 • view
Internet is not fit for purpose. It's like that episode of Black Mirror where the guy (Peter Capaldi) keeps adding new hardware to sustain the ecosystem for the little characters in the legacy video game which keeps evolving.
aug 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 9 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Russia just doesn't give a fuck: if censorship destroy Internet and makes it unusable it's only better for govt. Plus, usual folks can be brought to the fold and once people using Internet properly are minority, minority can be declared criminals. Simple as that.
aug 23, 2025, 9:36 pm • 5 1 • view
You thinking like engineer but not like as politician. It's a big mistake. Don't underrestimate their will to make your life miserable for a tiny bit of power. They don't need good solution. They need fitting for them solution. Even if it means outlaw the biggest tech marvel on the planet.
aug 23, 2025, 9:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Just find somewhere chronicles of russian madness going by exponent from 2013. They dismantling internet bit by bit without proper replacement and when it damages economy they're saying literally "Can't work w/o internet? Enlist to the army and go to Ukraine killing people for money".
aug 23, 2025, 9:46 pm • 2 0 • view
West just takes first step on this way and I can't see reasons for them to stop. No Soviet Shadow to scare them into treating people not like shit. No revolutions looming on horizon. Only desire to return back XVIII century when only rich and noble are matter.
aug 23, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view