They start by introducing a porn filter. But that's just so they get the filtering enabled (basically everywhere because it defaults to ON).
Then they can, quite conveniently and quietly, filter out whatever they want.
Someone getting a little too vocal about a dodgy government policy? Let's just add them to the blacklist for a while to turn their public volume down.
It's all about getting government control over the internet because the internet scares them because it hasn't been controllable.
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They start by introducing a porn filter. But that's just so they get the filtering enabled (basically everywhere because it defaults to ON).
Then they can, quite conveniently and quietly, filter out whatever they want.
Someone getting a little too vocal about a dodgy government policy? Let's just add them to the blacklist for a while to turn their public volume down.
It's all about getting government control over the internet because the internet scares them because it hasn't been controllable.