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by pixl97 893 days ago
It's not about regulating porn, it's about regulating what you can think about. This has been a 'feature' of the US for quite some time, create lists of your political enemies and the 'naughty' things they do so you can use them against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism 2.0
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White_Wolf 893 days ago
you won't beat us in that regard. The article is a bit biased but the examples are real(uk). https://care.org.uk/news/2023/08/the-new-thought-police
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yetanother12345 893 days ago
Please, McCarthy is old hat.

Here's a Survey of WorldWide Censorship, specifically the chapter on internet[0] to get you up-to-date. There's also the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) [1] which deals more with infrastructure blocks.

There's also the more subtle kind, called "fact-checking" which on the surface does a very good job shielding us from the conspiracy theorists[2]. Don't misunderstand, on the surface this is a noble task, but it is still a filter of information that you did not employ yourself, and one that you have no means of controlling or influencing. You will only see what they left out: If you are not accepted by these gate-keepers you are silently excluded by most big media outlets. Here are eg. the organizations that Facebook trust to fact-check[3]

There's a really large machinery operating worldwide these days. Or, specifically, a whole lot of different machines. I'm not saying this to spead FUD, just FYI.

[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-...

[1] https://explorer.ooni.org/findings

[2] The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (just one example): https://efcsn.com/

[3] https://www.facebook.com/formedia/mjp/programs/third-party-f...

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