Theresa May to Spearhead 1984-ization of the Internet
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Theresa May to create new internet that would be controlled and regulated by government
Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online.
Particular focus has been drawn to the end of the manifesto, which makes clear that the Tories want to introduce huge changes to the way the internet works.
"Some people say that it is not for government to regulate when it comes to technology and the internet," it states. "We disagree."
Senior Tories confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the phrasing indicates that the government intends to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online.
The plans will allow Britain to become "the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet", the manifesto claims.
It comes just soon after the Investigatory Powers Act came into law. That legislation allowed the government to force internet companies to keep records on their customers' browsing histories, as well as giving ministers the power to break apps like WhatsApp so that messages can be read.
The manifesto makes reference to those increased powers, saying that the government will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online". That is apparently a reference in part to its work to encourage technology companies to build backdoors into their encrypted messaging services – which gives the government the ability to read terrorists' messages, but also weakens the security of everyone else's messages, technology companies have warned.
The government now appears to be launching a similarly radical change in the way that social networks and internet companies work. While much of the internet is currently controlled by private businesses like Google and Facebook, Theresa May intends to allow government to decide what is and isn't published, the manifesto suggests.
The new rules would include laws that make it harder than ever to access pornographic and other websites. The government will be able to place restrictions on seeing adult content and any exceptions would have to be justified to ministers, the manifesto suggests.
The manifesto even suggests that the government might stop search engines like Google from directing people to pornographic websites. "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm," the Conservatives write.
The laws would also force technology companies to delete anything that a person posted when they were under 18.
But perhaps most unusually they would be forced to help controversial government schemes like its Prevent strategy, by promoting counter-extremist narratives.
"In harnessing the digital revolution, we must take steps to protect the vulnerable and give people confidence to use the internet without fear of abuse, criminality or exposure to horrific content", the manifesto claims in a section called 'the safest place to be online'.
The plans are in keeping with the Tories' commitment that the online world must be regulated as strongly as the offline one, and that the same rules should apply in both.
"Our starting point is that online rules should reflect those that govern our lives offline," the Conservatives' manifesto says, explaining this justification for a new level of regulation.
"It should be as unacceptable to bully online as it is in the playground, as difficult to groom a young child on the internet as it is in a community, as hard for children to access violent and degrading pornography online as it is in the high street, and as difficult to commit a crime digitally as it is physically.
The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms", according to the manifesto.
The Conservatives will also seek to regulate the kind of news that is posted online and how companies are paid for it. If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy" – and crack down on Facebook and Google to ensure that news companies get enough advertising money.
If internet companies refuse to comply with the rulings – a suggestion that some have already made about the powers in the Investigatory Powers Act – then there will be a strict and strong set of ways to punish them.
"We will introduce a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law," the manifesto reads.
In laying out its plan for increased regulation, the Tories anticipate and reject potential criticism that such rules could put people at risk.
"While we cannot create this framework alone, it is for government, not private companies, to protect the security of people and ensure the fairness of the rules by which people and businesses abide," the document reads. "Nor do we agree that the risks of such an approach outweigh the potential benefits."
I copy pasted the whole article for you.
Good, this will only speed up development of decentralized internet and alternative networks. Technology is and will be always one step ahead of politics. Unless they decide to go full north korea mode there will be workarounds.
And how many normalfags will stumble upon those workarounds?
Do normies still fall for this "we are doing it to stop the terrorists" meme?
I don't see how this is a bad thing.
yes
The eternal normie never changes.
"Der Ewige Normie" - in cinemas this summer!
But they are?
Did you even read the article?
t. GCHQ
get out with your nazi language
Yes. Nowhere in the article it is stated that access to the networks outside of UK will be completely prohibited. There is just way too much information to control. What's stopping me from using VPN and accessing content from the outside? UK laws will not apply in other countries. Even if they implement all the said restrictions and monitoring it takes just 5 minutes to think of a new way to mask content as normal traffic (steganography). Again no matter what they will do there will always be alternatives unless they turn in to a totalitarian state. But at that point people would probably revolt and take back the control of their country.
I don't see how this is a bad thing.
Wishful thinking.
can someone explain why the libshits hate her?
Their daughters are enslaved by Paki rape gangs with courtesy of their own government/police force. I don't think losing the interweb will wake them up.
Like always, the subhumans will only fight when their bellies are empty.
Have they discussed the technical aspects of how they plan to accomplish this? How are they going to 'backdoor' SSL connections to sites in other countries?
This is Britain we're talking about. They'd probably form an orderly queue right up to the gas chamber doors.
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Not really. You can spot a normie nowadays because they think we are doing it to stop the pedophiles.
call the NSA top give them another unpublished backdoor/bug
The US and the UK are known by all sane people as being amongst the enemies of freedom for a reason.
if they don't then we get "LE SEKRIT KLUB!"
WEW LAD!
It's marked as "some safeguards but weakened protections" and that was in *2007*. I shouldn't need to tell you how the situation has changed in the last decade.
butthurt shlomo detected
>>>/auschwitz/
user, you're at least a decade too late.
cuckflare and other MITM cloudshit
It's really shocking how willing the tech community is to poz their sites with that literal botnet. You'd think the cloudbleed would have been coffin nails on their idiotic MITM enterprise, but it was met with a mere shrug.
It's because the average moron in their target audience doesn't care about his privates leaking all over the internet (he already uploads them on faceberg by himself) - but he does care if his jewflix loads half a second faster from a nearby CDN node. The "tech community" (really, the managers running the companies) are just following market demand.
We need to kill every normalfag, then the problem will correct itself on its own.
Brits can't even rob a fucking bank properly (archive.is
fukken lol'd. Thanks for the higher quality version btw.
@topic: and I almost wanted to go on vacantion to the UK.. good thing I didn't!
Side issue, but nowadays jewflix put their boxes onsite at major ISPs.
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As opposed to 'murrica where everyone is too fat and stupid to revolt.
Good. Finally a god sent conservative to stop this huge degeneracy known as the internet.
I hope the government also apply censorship on hentai and cuck porn, I can't stand these degenerate filth.
This guy gets it
When will antifa do something good for once and oust this government from power.
antifa ARE the government you 'tard.
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Look, they're dumb kiddies, but they aren't part of the government unless they're undercover cops or something, which actually did happen with some green groups in the UK.
Letting women into government was a mistake.
And Jews, but that goes without saying.
First wave feminism was a mistake, though I guess that goes without saying these days, too.
can't vote for censorship-woman (may)
can't vote for commited to open borders man (corbyn labour)
what the FUCK do i do?
Good, this will only make life harder for the unwanted members of society while normal people won't be affected.
I guess Telegram will be blocked in the UK now.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
le degenearcy meme
If killing yourself is an option, try that. I've got no idea otherwise.
you first
We are literally between Scylla and Charybdis here. Jezza's getting perilously close to Sharia May in the polls, which basically no-one thought would happen a few weeks ago. Therefore we have a choice between literal 1984 and regularly having no running trains or electricity due to strikes under glorious socialism. Pic related expresses my feelings best.
Stop being complacent and don't vote
t. freech