“Faremo combattere insieme”: gli americani che intendono fare causa a Ofcom per la legge sulla sicurezza online

Never thought I’d see myself fighting side by side with an American.

> The lawyer added: “One big defection from European censorship regimes, and it’s over. They’ll never censor any American again.”

Interesting to see on what basis.

> Sorry, the First Amendment gives Americans the right to run our servers however we damn well please.

No one is telling them how to run their servers. It’s just that if they want to make money in other countries, they have to obey those countries’ laws, like it or not. Of course, in his opinion USA dictates what the rest of the world can do, fair enough but not exactly realistic.

They’re making a claim on federal court? This doesn’t make basic sense. The US courts have no jurisdiction over a UK body.

They won’t be very happy about the very similar bill their own government is currently working on then.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7891/text

At this point we are all failing to see the wood for the trees. It is not just one foolish government or regulator running on “think of the children!”, it is a unilateral effort to censor and restrict the internet worldwide.

Not that they have much of a leg to stand on, the UK parliament is, for better or worse, sovereign in the UK.

People are surprised, but even with all the bad stuff going on in America, nothing was censored. You’re still allowed to see protests footage, South Park episode on Trump, ICE agents on their arrests, can still post “woke” stuff all over, can criticize the abortion ban, can post wrong stuff and be corrected, can debate, have nuance, etc. So, I can see why America, mostly big corpos, aren’t fine with stuff like this. It makes the internet unusable, all blame is put on them and actually, the last shred of privacy is broken. People online expose and harass lots of pedos and criminals in general because they’re easy to track without any ID. Look at the Luca Magnotta and Kero the wolf cases, people were doing detective jobs for free. EDP445 isn’t left by people to exist online to gain audience and money. People found the flag in a room in Spain even. If only the police worked as hard and took complaints seriously.

In my country, a guy mostly exposing online scams but not only and a victim female singer were talking a few years ago about a forum made for revenge porn, posting spy pics of their female family members, deepfakes of female celebrities and their teen daughters, all sorts of illegal porn. Yet nothing was done, even though they could be easily found (especially those who posted family members or random women on the street). It’s not like they were good at hiding their identities. It took women being mad over a rise in femicides this year to have the forum brought back into the conversation and have the creator investigated. And even in the kidnapping of 2 teen girls some 5-6 years ago, the people at the emergency call center were awful to the one who managed to call them and unprofessional, police was incompetent as well. A life which could’ve been saved was lost. No one cares about children and women, if they did, they’d actually work on real world cases. I honestly was surprised an ordinary woman won a case in court over revenge porn blackmail recently, it was like winning the lottery. Some pedo raping 13 y/o girl got a slap on the wrist in the past, and that judge was female and managed to fail upward into a better position.

Regardless of how successful this will be, how much taxpayer money will be spent defending this in court? All to prevent kids from listening to Spotify or accessing addiction resources online.

“They’ll never censor any American again.”

Yep, and this is why so many American flags get burnt.

Having lived both before & during the Internet, I really am looking forward to living After it.

If people are dumb enough not see what this corrupt shyster is trying to pull, they deserve everything that happens to them.