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On 1/24/25 11:24 PM, Rich wrote:
> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Rich wrote:
>>
>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>>>   Again though the "liability" issue for un-PC content.  It's sort of
>>>>>   a prob in the USA but a much bigger prob in the EU and beyond.  As
>>>>>   said, such a system needs to be located in a
>>>>>   who-knows/cares-country where it's hard to get at legally.
>>>>
>>>> In europe I would not worry about it at all.
>>>
>>> Europe is, sadly, one place where if you are in the wrong locality, you
>>> *very much* have to worry about it.
>>
>> In which locality in europe would you have to worry about posts on usenet?
> 
> There are several for which I've seen recent articles on HN about their
> pushing the "big social platforms" [1] for ever varing amounts of
> censorship (notably, censoring "things they don't like").  I only
> tangentially read much of the linked articles (being in the US myself
> it did not impact me in any way) and did not bother to even commit to
> any short term memory the specific localities.  But it is not a far
> reach to go from "thou shal censor what I say to censor" to
> "thou shal do said censoring under penalty X in my new statute Y" (esp.
> if "big social platform" fail to bend over and take it).
> 
> The fact that Usenet is all but unknown today, save for us few
> die-hards, provides a large form of "protection" (that which is unknown
> to the enforcers goes unpunished).  At the same time, should a locality
> have a "site owner responsible for content X" statute, obscurity is not
> a blanket protection, it just reduces the risk of being noticed.  But,
> if noticed, then the punishment would show up.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] the meta/facebook's and twitter/x's and the like


   Who Are The Brain Police ?

   NOT hard to find 'em in the EU. You can be ARRESTED
   for un-PC thinking .....

   Very sad. Very embarrassing for the 'free world' concept.