Comment by razighter777 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by razighter777 | Hacker News Reader

When a government feels the need to implement technical control measures against ordinary citizens, the tight leash that the people had on their government's authority is broken.

Mass censorship, surviellence, and erosion of privacy are incompatible with human dignity. Purely utilitarian stances advocating online censorship "for the greater good", exploiting the causes of "terrorism" and "child safety" fail to consider anything more than the first order consequences.

Once a government taste the powerful liquor of censorship, there's no way that bottle's ever getting corked again. You bet your ass when anything happens that threatens those in power, that they'll be using that censorship on more than just the evil porn websites and terrorists.

I hope that this GFW leak helps researchers and hobbyists alike find more ways to fight against government erosion of personal dignity.

>Once a government taste the powerful liquor of censorship, there's no way that bottle's ever getting corked again.

Seems the youth of Nepal managed to cork the bottle again earlier this month, when after the mass social media ban they burned down the government buildings and chased the parliamentarians out of the country.

same won't happen on russia or usa.

if musk "buys" trump's untruth network and merge it with the remains or xitter, and then all the others are blocked to "save the children" nobody will say anything. maybe, just maybe, there will be a stockholders lawsuit on meta for the value dropping to zero. but hardly anything else.

Users can stop using it. Good luck to the gov banning any and all sites. People will migrate to drcentralized networks or deep web areas.

You still need a cooperative ISP to do that.

And where do you migrate to, when laws also enforce centralized software distribution, locked down devices and a filtered internet? Pigeons? You realize, all these motions existing already today and could instantly manifest into law?

If laws were to enforce entralized distribution and somehow not be a 1A violation, I suppose I'd go to jail, because I'd sooner spend my time building from nand back to my own general computing device than comply. I simply would just be a criminal.

me, you, and five other schizos.

most people don't even use an adblocker.

You fundamentally misunderstand the battlefield.

> I hope that this GFW leak helps researchers and hobbyists alike find more ways to fight against government erosion of personal dignity.

Dream on. Remember Germany ?

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