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To: TobagoJack who wrote (173545)	6/22/2021 6:39:50 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218785

Never mind the Cryptos, it could be getting close to switching off the internet along with the TV (already done). Waste of time and effort. Considering to maybe upgrade life to subsistance farming and some fishing. #AxisOfEasy 201: Bill C-10 Rammed Through Parliament In Midnight session « AxisOfEasy "Hopes that Bill C-10 would be “skated into the boards” until after the next election have been crushed as the internet regulation and censorship bill was passed in a midnight session of Parliament at 1:30 am this morning." plus lots of other garbage coming up. I need to grumble about this one for a while, before I decide what I really want to do.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (173545)	6/23/2021 7:25:29 AM
From: Horgad	Respond to of 218785

"I take it that there is a difference between seizing vs blocking a website" Probably not. Think of it like if the government wanted to block your mail. They could told all the post offices that if they see any mail addressed to specific address to chuck it in the garbage or they could tell the specific local post office that delivers specifically to your address . In the case of a website, you would have to intercept requests on the specific network where the website lives or alternatively intercept requests on all of the hubs where the majority of internet traffic flows through. The only things you could seize would be computer hardware and code. But code is easily copied and then can be put on different computer hardware anywhere in the world and if blocked the address and name of the website can also be easily changed. However having to change these (especially the name) will make it difficult for users to re-find the website (especially if the government is also controlling the search engines like google). And then also the new address and name can then be blocked.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (173545)	6/23/2021 11:35:53 AM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218785

Crypto-isation of everything might have to be accelerated, else back to pen and paper as backstop... None of my important work has been entrusted to a computer... since roughly 1998. Fairly safe to assume, even back then, that anything done on a computer is being observed by others... many of whom are intent on stealing it... But, then, it is not only hard drives that can be stolen, physically... as mine have been... so anything really important is also not entrusted to paper... but requires a lot of mental exercise to sustain in grey matter... The overall impact... is a massive reduction in productivity... only with there being no metrics capable of being applied to determine how much innovation is being lost to "a basic failure to communicate". That is what is imposed by enabling simple theft... and by the incompetence of authorities in failing to prevent such... while instead focused on fostering it. The metrics there are... measure only the level of noise in accelerated publication of... more noise... which continues to grow and is reported as "progress" measured by the pound... the volume accepted as proof of improvement... rather than the opposite. Digital dark ages is not what many expected computers to enable... but, that is exactly what is happening... with the suppression of speech on the internet being only the most obvious in recent instances of proof... The impact most apparent in the "stalled out" pace of innovation in computer chips... another direct result... But, also... it means there is a massive backlog of amazing innovation waiting to be liberated when the problems of corporate and government sponsored IP theft are solved... in favor of innovators... or, otherwise, lost... due to the sustained influence of the dark lords of the digital dark age we now inhabit... The systems we have are broken... as corrupt corporate suits and corrupt officials are not only responsible for breaking it... they're working hard on breaking it more than it already is... rather than fixing it... No surprise, I'd guess... that if you confiscate gold from the miners... they'll tend to leave it in the ground rather than work for free just to give it away ? I think in mining it usually takes a century or more for those sorts of errors to be corrected...