Am I...am I pro Brexit now?

These kind of messages are related to GDPR which has no relation to the censorship bill and is in fact a very good thing.

The reason some of these messages sound so prohibitive is because companies were used to doing fuck all with our data to maximize profits.

As for the censorship issue: I've read that until December 2020 Europeans can imigrate to UK on current rules, and the government will help them transition to new rules past that date.

UK will face serious overpopulation problem when all European Internet users move there.

Games Workshop (one of my other favourite axes to grind) did something like this back in the day.
They sent cease and desist orders to all the fan websites using their logos, claiming it was stealing their IP.
Yes this was back when they were insane and hated their fans!

It just seems like a dangeorus level of control to give to the powers that be.
If any picture can be declared copyright and cant be reproduced, then that has huge implications.

People are saying Star Trek Discovery stinks? Well we will ban anyone sharing pictures from it outside of approved publications, that will shut that conversation down nicely.

Insulting meme mocking the politician? that's stealing his image! We must stop it!

Sadly I feel like the open and free internet we enjoy now won't last much longer.
In 10 years time I think it will be a very different place.
The people at the top have every incentive to control the way we communicate to their own advantage.


I like the idea of the EU as a trade thing nad pooling the resources of different countries. I'm not even really against the idea of an European Super State if it was set up properly (gasp!)
But the EU feels really detached and unaccountable. Like its just powerful people at the top dictating what they want down to the rest of us.


As you probably know, on this forum I try to let people have whatever opinion they want.
Sometimes we argue or annoy each other etc but I think its the price to be paid for an open platform.
If I started clamping down on what could and couldn't be said, I would have a biased and it would all start getting pushed into the filter of my world view and opinions I dont agree with would end up being the bad ones we need rid of. That is inevitable.
When people start clamping down on the internet, the same thing will happen. the poeple higher up will be telling us whats offensive and what's immoral and whats indecent.
I'm really strongly against that.

The problem with this particular reform is that it seems to have been touched by the monkey with a razor effect.

I don't have a problem with this law in general, but there are a few points that could have only been conceived by, dare I say, old people who don't use the Internet and have no idea how it works.

In particular I mean the article that mandates usage of content filtering algorithms on all sites. Anyone who's ever used YouTube for more than letting their toddler watch Spiderman do unspeakable things to Elsa knows how much the use of such algorithms is making the site a shitshow for people creating legal content like reviews. This is by far the most dangerous article, which will make the whole Internet subject to preventative censorship. It's hard to fathom.

It's also the first case where I can honestly say that the polarization of our society came back to bite us in the ass. Since early on someone cried "they're gonna outlaw memes", the people primarily interested in protesting this reform were right-wing youth, framing it predictably as "Marxists want to outlaw memes to censor our truth", which in turn made it easy for lobbyists to react with "LOL at rightists triggered that we're going to take away their frog-man", similar to that USA commission that overturned net neutrality reacted to criticism with clowning. And then most centrists and leftists decided it's some populist FUD not worth paying attention to. We all lost a chance to discuss this issue openly.

Well, it actually can happen already. Do you think GW stopped because the law doesn't allow them to do this kind of things anymore? Hardly. I'm not sure that it's the kind of thing we should be worried about in regards to this particular law.

This has already happened and will be happening more, alas.

Well, that's just [censored] and I can't believe that [inappropriate] in our current climate of [restricted].