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by ivan_gammel 106 days ago
Well, they are concerned, however citizens of authoritarian states have no agency in decision-making. It works to the extent where mobile internet is mostly not working in places like Moscow (traffic to a few white-listed sites is allowed). A lot of services based on mobile connectivity are nearly impossible there for this reason (and geolocation has 4-digits before decimal point precision in km).
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The blocking of cloudflare in Spain shows that citizens of “democratic” states have no agency either.
It is different. It’s just not a sensitive issue - you cannot win elections having fixing this as central part of your platform. In authoritarian states you cannot win elections, period.
It is always "different". Are you older than 18 years ? Are you "allowed" to use a computer ? Or is this "different" ?