But please don’t call it European spring.
> So many of the conversations partners have with founders begin with the founders saying a sentence that begins with "how do I.." and the partner answers with a sentence that begins with "just".
i.e. policy-makers look for an elaborate hack (like founders tend to do), when the most absurdly simple solution is the best one.
Mike Butcher later retracted xyr call to shut off Blackberry Messenger. The other person who called for it was David Lammy, MP.
* https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/absolute-explosion-how-bla...
The journalist was Mike Butcher. Both xe and at least one other journalist, Paul Lewis of The Graduian, had been watching the BBM traffic. Butcher pointed out that the authorities had seemingly missed people coördinating riot activity there, posted on Twitter about it, and later retracted xyr post.
* https://www.theguardian.com/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots...
The MP for Tottenham was David Lammy.
Namely, in the end, they will have to switch off telecommunication as a whole... well, if they are not interested in gathering intelligence about the rioters.
And then real rioters will have 'mesh communication devices', and then govs will need EM jammers too.
Sooo... govs should work on good and wide spread EM jammers instead of trying to to block DNS...
Good luck France.
You'd think a 1st world country would know about VPNs but not this one
And yes, you can in theory install the same software used to punch through the Chinese firewall, but if it doesn't appear in the app store or google play, your new VPN is as good as dead.
There are no technical solutions to political and social problems.
Of course the reasons to block websites has expanded dramatically, especially into the political realm.
Probably, since not many of us in Europe don't have lots of use cases for them, yet.
But things like our (Spain's) "internet shall not be 100% available during La Liga football matches" or our neighbors thinking of blocking DNS to stop political activism, surely will continue to make this number raise, albeit slowly.
I am all for eliminating the antisocial media and the billionaires behind them as well, but I fail to see how censorship fixes anything.
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian...
How is this socialist policy?
More like that Macron does not stop spending too much. Countries such as Denmark or Canada show how to do better than Macron did.
Macron couldn't even increase retirement age to 65 because France doesn't want it.
Next time will likely be a choice of two parties who both said retirement age will be reduced to 60.
Yet again, socialism has failed to work, and it will always fail. When it fails, there are riots and violence.
We are seeing that EU companies are moving outside the EU, one recent example is that Volvo Cars are firing 2500 workers, and the EU laws and regulations will make this pattern repeat itself.
In the end, either EU will have to embrace capitalism, or it will break apart when nationalist parties promise that they have the easy solution, and do their own thing. I think actually breaking apart EU would be the best option.
Democratic socialist Europe was able to hold the line longer. Maybe it failes, but America failed faster.
Cuz Claude Shannon told us if everyone broadcasts on the same frequency noise increases and no one hears anything forcing them into broadcasting at higher and higher power or repeating their messages more and more. Which again increases noise. So Broadcasting has always been licensed and regulated. That solved the Noise problem because people were forced to coordinate use of broadcast spectrum.
Social media platforms act as if Shannon doesn't apply. So they do exactly what Shannon predicted. Everyone is broadcasting. No one can be heard clearly. People scream louder and louder. The loudest get locked into arms races. Repeat their messages more and more. At the end of it all Noise hasnt reduced and who gets attention from one day to the next is unpredicatble. And since Platforms dont want to talk about Shannon we are all stuck in some kind of red queen dynamic. People are expending lot of energy. Results are all temporary and unpredictable.