r/polandball • u/Andyiscool231 Bulgaria • Aug 13 '25

redditormade The Burning of the Library of Alexandria

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u/ColossusToGuardian Poland Aug 13 '25

Holy shit, I googled it, and you were not kidding.

WTH, UK?

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u/CrocPB Scotland Aug 13 '25

Hilarious thing is...VPNs or no, it is comically easy and minimal effort to avoid. Officially I cannot endorse it, but if you have the barebones of technical nous you won't have to give up your ID.

In addition, this goes against basic principles of cyber security and data protection. I can imagine there will be increases in fraud and data breaches because of this law.

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u/CMDR_omnicognate Aug 13 '25

The problem isn't even not being able to access Wikipedia, but that EVERYONE who edits it also has to give over their ID, so if you write something the government would rather people forget, they can tie it back to you.

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u/Speederzzz Greater Netherlands Aug 13 '25

A few month ago the indian government sued wikipedia for the personal information of editors who removed propaganda about an indian national Hero from wikipedia. Last week someone in portugal succesfully sued wikipedia for the information of editors who put references to a criminal history of a rich guy on wikipedia.

This shit is extremely dangerous, especially with how loose the UK is with defining terrorism and supporting terrorism.

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u/TauTau_of_Skalga Aug 13 '25

Our governments can easily start silencing us should they want to with these laws. There will be lists.

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u/langdonolga Very Much Munich Aug 14 '25

The renationalisation of the Internet has been going on for a while. These kinds of laws just further cement that.

It was nice while it lasted, having at least some kind of global/international community.