So, what you’re saying is this law will encourage setting up shop somewhere without reciprocal agreements, which will encourage countries to lapse said agreements, weakening US soft power yet more.
Sounds like a win.
Shame so many of the world’s governments have a hard on for de-anonymizing the internet though.
The EU is doing ID verification too, it’s essentially bifurcating the Internet into the new ‘We know exactly who you are’ Internet and the old, possibly soon to be outlawed, wild wild west Internet that we’re on today where you can remain pseudoanonymous.
Yup, and something of value (especially to free speech) is being lost. My hope is “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” - John Gilmore, still applies when enough governments go at it.
So, what you’re saying is this law will encourage setting up shop somewhere without reciprocal agreements, which will encourage countries to lapse said agreements, weakening US soft power yet more.
Sounds like a win.
Shame so many of the world’s governments have a hard on for de-anonymizing the internet though.
The EU is doing ID verification too, it’s essentially bifurcating the Internet into the new ‘We know exactly who you are’ Internet and the old, possibly soon to be outlawed, wild wild west Internet that we’re on today where you can remain pseudoanonymous.
Yup, and something of value (especially to free speech) is being lost. My hope is “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” - John Gilmore, still applies when enough governments go at it.