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Nations don't have sovereignty over the whole internet.

The internet we know and enjoy today will be destroyed. It will fracture into regional or national networks with heavy filtering at the borders as countries seek to impose their laws on it.

It was good while it lasted.

Brazil here is making a fairly early start

This is the culmination of an internet regulation and control campaign that started years ago when the left recognized the danger of unchecked social media to its power. Our president is quoted saying he regretted not regulating it. Now he's finally getting his wish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/world/americas/brazil-onl...

That's when the censorship started, as far as I know.

Brazil has a particularly exciting take that grants themselves the right to bypass content moderation at will.

Yeah. I've seen discussion trying to make it illegal for social media platforms to ban politicians at all. Literally a special class of people.

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