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General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.

What used to be called The Great Firewall of China. It used to be unthinkable for western countries.

You can’t blame this on old people. This is only happening now that the Boomers are on the way out. People who sent international letters or made international phone calls were aware that they were communicating with a different country with different laws. I think we are seeing this now, because now we have people who experience the internet as something happening on their own phone, at their location.

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The boomers are not on their way out. We have the exact same politicians in power that we had 30 fucking years ago.

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- semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They’re retiring or dying of old age soon, they think now’s the time to shit all over the floor and trash the place.
  
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    They’re retiring
    
    Retirement is when it’s about time to get into big politics. Most politicians on higher levels are 60+ y.o.
    
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    semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well, death makes exceptions for no one, so
    
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- General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  UK cabinet is mainly GenXers. I didn’t count exactly, but Boomers still seem to outnumber Millennials. Definitely on the way out, though.
  
  I wouldn’t mind the politicians from 30 years ago, who stayed away from this bullshit.
  
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  - RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The UK didn’t ban leaded petrol until 1999 meaning most millenials will suffer from the boomer-loony disease as they were poisoned during their childhood.
    
    Let’s also not forget that fuel for light aircraft still contains lead :/
    
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- maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But thirty years ago I was half my height
  
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Funnily enough the CIA (yes, the CIA) was largely involved in keeping the internet a free and open space for all, heck they even contributed encryption algorithms to keep data private and such …

The reason why the free internet existed for so long was because it was a big ideological project for the US. (the internet is the space of all ideas and as such represents the platonic/christian concept of heaven). It’s only now ending because it’s served its purpose. The people have exchanged ideas worldwide, and that only needs to happen twice, similarly to how you can only infect yourself with the same virus once (because the second infection does way less impact), you can only infect yourself with the same idea once. So, once the worldwide ideas are exchanged, the internet serves very little purpose anymore.

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