For people who don’t know this: That is an IRC server whose main purpose is to facilitate communication for developers of open source software.
Governments trying to regulate the Internet in order to make it “safer”, especially “for children”, are literally putting our entire digital infrastructure at legal risk. How did we get to this point? Can we, maybe, try to undo this and go back to a system where governments try to regulate, at most, only the parts of the Internet where the hosting happens within their borders? And we have access to everything that is legal somewhere, even if it is illegal where we live? Pretty please?
For people who don’t know this: That is an IRC server whose main purpose is to facilitate communication for developers of open source software.
Governments trying to regulate the Internet in order to make it “safer”, especially “for children”, are literally putting our entire digital infrastructure at legal risk. How did we get to this point? Can we, maybe, try to undo this and go back to a system where governments try to regulate, at most, only the parts of the Internet where the hosting happens within their borders? And we have access to everything that is legal somewhere, even if it is illegal where we live? Pretty please?
John Perry Barlow was right: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence