[tenpies]

My hope is that some comparatively insignificant Western country passes it first, makes international news when it cripples its own technological capacity and infrastructure, and then that becomes the cautionary tale.

My money is on Canada. The Trudeau Liberals passed their first of three internet control and censorship bills, C-18, and it has already backfired stupendously. It's quite similiar to Australia's similiar bill to force some companies to pay for linking to news content, but the Liberals saw that and thought "we should try it too!". Same result, Google basically said "no problem, we won't link to news in Canada".

However, unlike Australia, the Canadian Liberals are doubling down. New tax payer-funded subsidies for Canadian news are already being discussed to make up for the lost revenue the legislation caused. The Liberal-funded media is also trying to paint this as evil greedy foreign capitalist technology companies refusing to pay their fair share for exploiting Canadian news companies.

But that's why my money is on Canada. It has the perfect blend of incompetent leadership, empowered by another party that helps them pass any legislation no matter what, and constituents that are largely apathetic to anything that happens.

[rainonmoon]

Don't worry, Australia is doubling down too. Our entire legislative board around tech and the internet at the moment is chock full of draconian shit like this.

[BLKNSLVR]

Australia is half-fucked already, and will be completely fucked when the current opposition get back into Government (they're the ones who initiated the half-fucked status when they were in government, unfortunately with no resistance from the opposition at the time).

Raid warrants are already being signed off based on the tiny window into an IP address' life provided by legislated metadata retention. And no further actual police work is done on backgrounding the persons or households involved before choosing to suspend their rights.