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UK's new internet laws, are we going to lose our anonymity, and become as heavily censored and monitored as China, North Korea, Russia etc?

F.U.B.A.R. said:
The Internet is basically fucked.

What once was a fantastic tool has become a massive pain in the arse - with censorship, security, misinformation, and mindless bollocks.

Bring back books...
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Agreed, for all the reasons stated. It has sadly gone downhill fast over the last few years especially.. Crappy AI content, especially on youtube, is another new factor that is dragging things down. Anyone can do that, there is no expertise, personality, or knowledge required any more.

Also all the individuality and uniqueness of finding obscure niche websites and things like that has been vanishing at a rapid rate. All the smaller sites are getting swallowed up by the corporate social media giants and Reddit. Where censorship is pretty hardline, and self expression is limited. Google is largely enabling this by becoming a far worse search engine than it used to be, the returns are now dominated by sponsored websites, and anything interesting seems to be no longer appearing at all.

Google image search is a prime example, now it no longer scours the whole internet looking for the search term, but instead every result directs straight to fucking Pinterest or Instagram. It's turning into Skynet.

What was once something amazing, and still could be, is turning into a pale shadow of what could have been, and of what it already has been but is no longer.
 
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Bleaney said:
Agreed, for all the reasons stated. It has sadly gone downhill fast over the last few years especially.. Crappy AI content, especially on youtube, is another new factor that is dragging things down. Anyone can do that, there is no expertise, personality, or knowledge required any more.

Also all the individuality and uniqueness of finding obscure niche websites and things like that has been vanishing at a rapid rate. All the smaller sites are getting swallowed up by the corporate social media giants and Reddit. Where censorship is pretty hardline, and self expression is limited. Google is largely enabling this by becoming a far worse search engine than it used to be, the returns are now dominated by sponsored websites, and anything interesting seems to be no longer appearing at all.

Google image search is a prime example, now it no longer scours the whole internet looking for the search term, but instead every result directs straight to fucking Pinterest or Instagram. It's turning into Skynet.

What was once something amazing, and still could be, is turning into a pale shadow of what could have been, and of what it already has been but is no longer.
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And the reason is... corporate greed.

Every fuckin thing on the Internet is infested with advertising.

Social media is infested with narcissistic pricks who value 'likes' over life and push sub standard products to earn revenue because they can't be arsed, or are not even capable enough, to get a proper job.

Sick of it...
 
I especially hate the ads for financial services / investments etc. that are plainly targeted at the under 25 market.

Had somebody tried that in 1995 it would've been lampooned off the face of the earth. Now we have 'hip' adverts for Google Teams. Shows there's a creeping US work culture as well. Make sure your employer knows your resting heart rate at any time.
 
Bleaney said:
How come the British government recently had to take Apple to court then, as Apple refused to allow the UK government a snooper's back door into it's mobile devices and presumably PCs?
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Hard to know. It may be the case that decryption is non-trivial and may not be surgical i.e. uses a supply-chain attack or zero-day exploits. Neither things any security service would wish to use on the basis that a compromised computer could be taken to... say... Kaspersky.

That and if MILLIONS of people are using such security, it's harder to spot when someone REALLY has something to hide.

That Encrochat thing was ONLY used by criminals which meant it was worth the assets. I believe there was also something similar in Australia. But again, since usage was limited to criminals, worth the assets.
 
End-to-end encryption is, afaik, essentially unbreakable as things stand. That has always been the case… in theory.

But just look at things like the PATRIOT Act in the US or the Snowden Leaks (ostensibly in the US but de facto worldwide considering the companies involved). Apple is a bit of a holdout, but privacy has long been an illusion.

The recent passing of EU legislation (which will include the UK as, for practical reasons, we are still involved when it comes to security matters) that requires encrypted services to “opt-in” to governmental “back doors”.

Yes it is technically optional, but I can’t see many companies fighting too hard against it. Too many cosy relationships at stake :|
 


As noted in the video, American state proposals to ban VPNs could be a major issue worldwide due to the way VPNs actually work.

More wonderful news from the Land of the Questionably Free. Maybe our colonial cousins could go ahead and shoot the concept of censorship for us poor unarmed Europeans :!
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
You'd be advised by our ultra-secret Royal Government to have a cup of tea and calm down.
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I ain't falling for that. They can come here, and fire it up.

Then I would be stuck taking them to the range; becuase The British government is scared of its serfs. I would never trust a royal, especially the lot you guys have. They would be like, you can own them, real guns.

Like all ( or most, there may or may no be any non-venomous ones. However, some snakes classified as non venomous, do have some very weak venom, for small insects and such but not dangerous to humans. not on all 100%) pit vipers they are venomous. That is how I see them.

Yes I know the difference between venom and poison.

However, you should understand what I mean.

Also, I have something you UK citizens can't get legally. 10mg blue valium tablets. They would calm me down better. However, even stronger Benzos don't chill me out, very much, and definitely not in therapeutic doses.
 
Jnowhere said:
I ain't falling for that. They can come here, and fire it up.

Then I would be stuck taking them to the range; becuase The British government is scared of its serfs. I would never trust a royal, especially the lot you guys have. They would be like, you can own them, real guns.

Like all ( or most, there may or may no be any non-venomous ones. However, some snakes classified as non venomous, do have some very weak venom, for small insects and such but not dangerous to humans. not on all 100%) pit vipers they are venomous. That is how I see them.

Yes I know the difference between venom and poison.

However, you should understand what I mean.

Also, I have something you UK citizens can't get legally. 10mg blue valium tablets. They would calm me down better. However, even stronger Benzos don't chill me out, very much, and definitely not in therapeutic doses.
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It's perfectly legal to prescribe 10mg blues over here. Don't know why you think they aren't legal.

Doctors (especially in the NHS) are pretty parsimonious with them because they were massively overprescribed and addictive. To say nothing of the negative cognitive effects.

But don't get upset. You still have your guns and your pledges of allegiance. And more dead kids today. Freedom!
 
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@Perkins : Reborn - as far as I know, it's still quite ususal to prescribe the infamous 'B-52' in cases of psychiaric emergency.

5 mg halopoeridol
2 mg lorazepam

Not just legal - FREE!

I'm also a little confused by the legality (or otherwise) of diazepam. No, not handed out like candy but legal to possess. No idea why someone would think it otherwise.
 
Jnowhere said:
I ain't falling for that. They can come here, and fire it up.

Then I would be stuck taking them to the range; becuase The British government is scared of its serfs. I would never trust a royal, especially the lot you guys have. They would be like, you can own them, real guns.

Like all ( or most, there may or may no be any non-venomous ones. However, some snakes classified as non venomous, do have some very weak venom, for small insects and such but not dangerous to humans. not on all 100%) pit vipers they are venomous. That is how I see them.

Yes I know the difference between venom and poison.

However, you should understand what I mean.

Also, I have something you UK citizens can't get legally. 10mg blue valium tablets. They would calm me down better. However, even stronger Benzos don't chill me out, very much, and definitely not in therapeutic doses.
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May be of interest to you. Monarchs used to be a menace. So we chopped his head off. We did allow them back cos the religious nut jobs that took over were so bad we sent them off to found America.

The current monarchy is a shadow of their former self. Loonies aside, almost nobody gives the slightest of fucks about them. Many, like myself, are Republicans (nothing to do with the American political party - quite the opposite in fact).

I think you’ve kinda drunk the Flavor Aid on the whole Reptilian-adjacent stuff you keep bringing up. But each to their own, eh? :)
 
4DQSAR said:
I'm also a little confused by the legality (or otherwise) of diazepam. No, not handed out like candy but legal to possess. No idea why someone would think it otherwise.
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It's a P.O.M., so perfectly legal if you have a legit prescription.

You can also legally drive a vehicle after taking your dose as prescribed by your Dr too.

For all the bad rap some people give benzos about cognitive impairment, they clearly cant be that bad if taken at therapeutic doses, considering that the DVLA considers a dose taken as prescribed to be perfectly safe and legal for driving.
 
@Shambles

there's a point about forbidding the use of vpns. Their a security flaw by design, they only work to hide your IP by some basic javascripts.

Once your VPN gets known, and someone does a port scan, it can then inject a simple archive utility script to unpack the packets, this means that the port doesn't know is being attacked instead it then says "Someone calls me home, I should quickly change a few numbers in my MAC" because VPN do not work like your own ISP's plan provider, they have a preconfigured mindset that simply can break even without having much knowledge. You can get masked by even doing too much F5. ;)

Now if this was your personal computer connection as linked by ISP, then the port scanning wouldn't work if proper configured. Even if it did, by closing the gpedit account policy the attack would be null.
 
I fully agree to, it kills the internet more than it is atm.

America did one right thing about this, and this being the Kaspersky ban.

Now even if users there want to use it, without or with VPN they cannot.

Databases do not work and if they do, not for long until kaspersky realizes you're a United State citizen.

So what's the point of VPN? They were made as a way to avoid Windows activation at one point, when loaders came they remained but loaders were there for your need already.

How was avoided? You'd reset your connection, and this was patched in the 2009 Windows 7 Beta update
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
It's perfectly legal to prescribe 10mg blues over here. Don't know why you think they aren't legal.

Doctors (especially in the NHS) are pretty parsimonious with them because they were massively overprescribed and addictive. To say nothing of the negative cognitive effects.

But don't get upset. You still have your guns and your pledges of allegiance. And more dead kids today. Freedom!
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Your one to talk, your country is a prison.
Except the "immigrants" don't get arrested, but you are white so be careful.
The subjects must stay in line.

I love your new internet laws. Keep up the great work. 1984, George Orwell( pen name) who would name their son Blair?

Enjoy the high taxes no freedom, expensive everything and your new friends. Isn't THE UK OR THE UNITED KINGDOM, a Monarchy. Be a good little subject and do whatever Big Brother tells you.lol
 
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