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Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 116 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They are not doing it to protect kids, don't perpetuate the bullshit claim used to surveil the globe.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    *Government: [insert blatant authoritarian/fascist requirement]… for the benefit of the kids. *

    Its probably smarter to assume that every decision a gov makes is an attempt at backdoor-ing more surveillance.

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    • [–] 44 points 3 months ago

    They're not doing it to protect kids.

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    [–] 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Meh private sector fucking up Internet went into overdrive about 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I would argue that started happening the moment they got online. The dot com crash didn’t happened for nothing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The dot com crash was idiot VC money trying to open, mymonkeyshit.com.

    The internet was a blast in the 90s until about 2015.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.

    I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.

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    • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Children, terrorism, criminals or drugs. If one argument stops working they'll move to the next one.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Will that translate into less school shootings and teachers raping children?

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    • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Man that cookie banner is unhinged. WTF, Neowin?

    How is that legal?

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    • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way...

    To fuck up the internet? I think they are trying on all fronts to be honest...

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Kill all the kids.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    namely, ISPs being required by law to ship routers to customers with a family DNS pre-configured. Candidate family DNS services that I am thinking of include Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.3 […]

    There's StevenBlack hosts, no need to centralize DNS to a provider with a shocking privacy policy.

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