Internet. A happy accident?

[justjoinedtopost]

http://fortune.com/2017/05/20/u-k-election-internet-regulation/

emphasizes the need for more online protections against abuse, more restrictions on pornographic or violent images, and a greater role for social networks in controlling the spread of extremist ideologies online.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/chinese-snooping-foreshadows-future-copyright-enforcement

It is just as chilling that the governments of the United States and Europe are being lobbied by copyright holders to follow China's lead. Although this call is being heard on both sides of the Atlantic, it has gained the most ground in Europe, where it needs to be urgently stopped in its tracks.

https://euobserver.com/opinion/137918

Another change to the directive is the proposal to supervise the moral development of children.

It sounds good, as long as you forget that there is no such thing as a legal definition of moral development.

Already today, social networks are required to block posts that are harmful to the physical or mental development of children - say, for example, the Blue Whale suicide challenge, a sinister online "game" that promotes self-harm.

Well, according to the rapporteurs, the state will now supervise such moral development.

https://mg.co.za/article/2017-04-27-00-in-the-age-of-the-internet-censorship-has-acquired-a-new-face

The latest CPJ report spells out how “new information technologies, for example, the global, interconnected internet; social media platforms; and smartphones with cameras were supposed to make censorship obsolete”. Instead, they have made it more complicated. Everyone is grappling with the same problems albeit in different contexts.

The report breaks the myth that the internet is free and can’t be controlled. Governments are using suppressing “hate speech” to suppress other information that shows them up.

Hmm.

 

[Ann_Sulu]

If I were @Guy I would be sooo compelled to tell you that you need to elaborate more about your own opinion other than simply "hmm" quotes and links. ^.^

 

[justjoinedtopost]

If I were @Guy I would be sooo compelled to tell you that you need to elaborate more about your own opinion other than simply "hmm" quotes and links. ^.^

I think if you were @Guy, you would be too busy stirring the feminist pot to notice. But point taken.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/03/lessons-from-the-stasi/

We don’t yet know what impact mass surveillance of our internet use will have on today’s digital societies.

This sums up my opinion I guess.

Of course, this article focuses mainly on "government" spying. A little misleading imo.

 

[camstory]

If I were @Guy

I'm so pleased you are not, although I would no longer care what happened that flash drive loaded with your content.