Comment by razighter777
1 day ago
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.
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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 ?