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Comment by pmdr

4 months ago

I doubt it. I think these laws were made to herd users towards big tech's established platforms that are 'policed' by community guidelines deemed 'appropriate' and where the content is never more than a takedown request away.

Welcome to the new internet.

(and it's funny how everyone's yelling 'fascist' at whatever happens in the US instead)

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a0123  4 months ago

Two countries can be fascist at the same time.

And it's not like the UK and the US aren't known for exchanging the worst of the worst with each other all the time.

throw_m239339  4 months ago

Right, it is called Regulatory Capture, because big actors have the means to comply.

  • pembrook  4 months ago

    Trust me, while the big social media sites love this, it wasn't their lobbying that made this happen.

    The UK government has a long history of meddling in media coverage to achieve certain aims. Up until Covid, legacy media still had control over the narrative and the internet was still considered 'fringe,' so governments could still pull the tried-and-true levers at 1-3 of the big media institutions to shape opinion.

    Post-covid, everyone became internet nerds and legacy media in english-speaking countries fully lost control of the narrative.

    This regulation is intended to re-centralize online media and bring back those narrative control levers by creating an extremely broad surface area of attack on any individual 'creator' who steps out of line.