• Stinkywinks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Aside this being extremely fucked up. Why do they even feel the need? I’ve been online most my life and have never been defrauded. Are there a shit ton of people in France getting scammed by stupid websites? Did they look at China and go, yes plz? Some authoritarian shit and extremely dangerous. Who’s going to be the fuck that decides which sites to block?

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      1 year ago

      Why do they even feel the need?

      Because the idea that the masses can freely disseminate information amongst themselves without needing the clergy or the state or “big media” to control it for them is like a splinter in the upper class’s minds.

    • Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      People might go online and find out that it’s not normal to have your country burn down every few months. They mights start getting angry at the people in power.

      Just kidding, this is probably about protecting corporate profits from the evils of BitTorrent or some shit.

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        1 year ago

        Instead of guessing, you could just… Google it. It’s about making harmful content unavailable to minors. I’m all for Internet freedom, but something makes me uncomfortable about protesting against protecting children from porn. It’s probably something to do with me seeing porn when I was young and it fucking me up for a long time.