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The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, let the government decide on censorship. I see nothing wrong with that. Oh! I know, let's have a point system based on how much they support the governments policies too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, what kind of sites does France want to censor? Piracy?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russian propagandists claim, there is no democracy and no freedom of press in the west. It seems like, they were right in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's just like the Cold War, folks... the propaganda is flying both ways - and neither side has to resort to too much lying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And this how the end of a civilization or at least of an era looks like.

The neoliberal system of deregulation of the economy and finance sector, of privatization, of weak states on these topics is crashing right in front of us. It requires now non-democratic, authoritarian, decisions to keep the head outside of the water and not shrinks undersea. The destruction of the environment is a symptom of this end.

A small minority wanted unlimited in a limited world. They wanted to touch the stars and burned their fingers. Like arrogant teenagers, they said it's nothing and let find solutions that are no more than placebos. But, even this now doesn't work anymore. They have to use the authoritarian card, another placebo.

It won't change today. It's a long process which can be accelerated if the population takes the lead. They know this fact. The authoritarian card is here to keep the population quite by restricting the access to the information "for the general good". They want to control this aspect of the life too.

But the monster they created is already out of control. It makes and always made more damage than good. They accelerated the neoliberal agenda to keep it calm but it doesn't work. They are running after it and after their inevitable lost.

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