Comment by teekert
1 day ago
I for one can only access rt.com from a European country if I use a vpn. So that is step 1. The next steps will come. Our government has shown itself willing and (partly) able to block content from its citizens, regardless of their intent. Ie being pro-Putin, or wanting to study what opinions circulate in Russia to try and maintain some level human understanding for our fellow humans on the other side.
Moreover a large part of our government is willing to implement something as egregious as ChatControl. So they are not above animing extremely invasive spying tech at their own citizens.
1+1=2. All prerequisites have been met for a European “firewall”. Hate the word btw, a firewall is supposed to be a defense tool. But these censoring tools are an attack on our agency. Every time I try to access something I am not allowed to access by my overlords I hear in my head "You are not allowed to see this information citizen."
I‘m not sure if it‘s different in your country, but I only know about DNS-blocking mandated by the government to ISPs. And while I don’t like that in itself and the ChatControl plans are pretty invasive, I would argue that right now we’re still pretty far away from something like the great firewall (and knowing European bureaucracy I don‘t think they’re even ready to deploy something like that from a technical standpoint).