Questions tagged [internet]
Questions related to the policies surrounding the internet.
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What are the objectives of the TikTok ban?
Google collects temporal + location information of Android handsets by default and is only a subpoena away from US authorities. The current administration is concerned that China would be able to use ...
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What powers does POTUS currently have to ban a web service in the USA by presidential order?
It was reported on the 31st July 2020 that Donald Trump wants to ban TikTok in the USA.
President Trump on Friday said he plans to ban the social media
platform TikTok from operating in the United ...
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What is Trump's social networks executive order about?
I've seen a titles which tell that it's a nightmare for those companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter). But they're pretty vague on it. What exactly does it do to them?
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What does the EARN IT act mean for messaging services without E2E encryption? [closed]
Many people have been discussing what the EARN IT act entails for services that offer E2E encryption, but almost nobody has mentioned or asked what this act would entail for the messaging services ...
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What are the implications of the EARN IT Act?
On the face of it, the EARN IT Act of 2020 appears to be a bill to protect against online exploitation of children by creating a National Commission for that purpose. However, the Electronic Frontier ...
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How are VPNs such a big industry in Iran despite internet censorship by the authoritarian government?
I have read about how VPNs are a big industry in Iran with the Iran Communication State mentioning it as a lucrative industry. However, the state is also big on internet censorship and it seems ...
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To what extent can a government control satellite internet compared to internet from a local ISP?
I've been thinking about Elon Musk's internet over satellite project. It requires a receiver to use this internet service and customers pay directly to his company for the service.
This made me think,...
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How does Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shield companies from liability of bias?
Section 230(c)(1):
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
There ...
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What reasoning did the South Korean government provide for blocking HTTPS?
Continuing from my previous question Why are South Korean content laws so strict?, a very intense case of excess internet censorship had recently occurred in South Korea. Now, the government plans on ...
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Will Britain be exempt from Article 13 if Brexit passes?
As stated in the title, will Brexit be able to prevent Britain from being affected by Article 13? This question comes in light of Article 13 recently passing.
For the purposes of this question, I am ...
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Why was Google grilled by congress for prototyping a censored search engine?
Sudar Pichai was summoned and grilled by Congress regarding numerous topics: among them was the Dragonfly censored search engine for China. What exactly is the problem with Google creating a state ...
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Did the EU cookie consent law have a pilot scheme?
Was the EU ePrivacy Regulation law subject to prior testing? ePrivacy was introdued in 2009 and updated in 2017. A key goal was:
The new rule will streamline the overload of consent requests for ...
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Chinese government internet censorship - statistics on evasion?
This may belong better somewhere else but I see this as relevant.
China extensively censors what its internet users can see. However, users can circumvent this by using a VPN. Are there any ...
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Are there any high profile candidates that debate with the aid of the internet?
In any democratic countries, are there examples of high profile political candidates that enter public debates with explicit use of internet resources in real time?
The following are some ...
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Why is the European Parliament still pursuing copyright law despite its implementation issues?
According to this article, the European Parliament is considering rolling out taxation of news aggregators:
(..) large European newspaper publishers have dreamed of charging news
aggregators such ...
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Is it possible that the US raises fees for using US based internet services – like Stack Exchange or Google – for people not living in the US?
In the current discussion about fees and taxes for import and export of goods to and from the US I have a question about internet services (as kind of virtual goods):
Is it possible that the US ...
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Will the repeal of Net Neutrality block me from accessing any websites? [closed]
Will the repeal of Net Neutrality block me from accessing ANY LEGAL website? These websites are small but VERY popular, and some contain adult content.
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Do countries other than the US operate “intranets” like the SIPRnet or JWICS? [closed]
...and what are they called?
SIPRNet is an intranet system operated by the US government for the passage of information classified as SECRET or lower. JWICS is an intranet system operated by the US ...
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What communications of Julian Assange made Ecuador cut off his Internet access?
It was reported today that
Ecuador’s government is cutting off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s communications outside the nation’s London embassy.
Officials announced Wednesday they were taking ...
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Why must Title II be applied universally federally?
The argument for Net Neutrality (well, one of them) is that:
Many people don't have an option of choice between >1 broadband ISP in their area
For those people who live in broadband monopoly area, ...
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Do “X% of people in US live in cable monopoly area” estimates include any other broadband ISP technologies? [closed]
In the context of Net Neutrality debate, one often hears claims that "X% of people live in the area with only one cable internet provider" (last one I heard was a podcast so don't recall exact # they ...
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What would it take to shut down NK’s internet? [closed]
According to the South Korean govt, North Korea makes quite a bit of money of crypto mining and hacking. If we could shut off there internet, we could make this income a lot harder to get and access, ...
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How could the free market limit the effects of net neutrality's repeal?
How could the free market limit the effects of net neutrality's repeal? Specifically, how will consumers' internet access be protected without government regulation?
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What are the main arguments against net neutrality?
With the upcoming FCC vote to abolish net neutrality provisions in the United States, I have read a tremendous amount about why net neutrality is a good thing and should be kept. What I haven't seen ...
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Are there any political parties floating the idea of nationalization of telecommunications monopolies?
What I mean by nationalization - Government aquires the physical infrastructure through eminent domain (especially the last mile, which is where these monopolies form), and either rents access back to ...
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Has there ever been a documented instance of the problem that net neutrality purports to solve?
The typical argument, seen here, goes like this:
Without net neutrality, cable companies could censor websites, favoring their own business partners.
Typically, proponents of legislation point to ...
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Why did it take so long for Germany to change laws applied to wireless hot spots?
According to this article (2014) wireless networks in Germany were way less than in other European countries.
Compared to many other countries, Germany is little more than a
patchwork when it ...
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How large of an effect did the internet regulation proposed by the conservative manifesto have on the election?
To the tech-savvy world, the part of the manifesto that dealt with internet regulation was... laughably insane and likely impossible to implement.
But what effect did it have on the election results?...
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How would even more internet regulation hinder terrorism?
In light of the London Attacks, Theresa May blames the internet:
“We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed – yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that ...
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Can twitter de-activate a government official's account? [closed]
I'm curious about this. Twitter's views are more progressive so what do the terms and conditions of twitter say about banning/De-activating a government officials account e.g. Trump's account. I'm ...
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What's the definition of “fake news” in the context of facebook? [closed]
Facebook is being asked by some people to do something about fake news. Does the term "fake news" refer to hit and run operations that try to get traffic for a particular article, or does it also ...
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Authoritarian regimes creatively dispensing information [closed]
At university we had a lengthy debate, about whether internet was a liberation technology, or a "stabilisation" technology for authoritarian regimes. This made me think about different scenaria. I had ...
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Can Title II reclassification of broadband be used to require ISPs to let competitors use their infrastructure?
The FCC just voted to reclassify broadband under Title II of the communications act. Could this be used by a new ISP (like Google) to make use of existing ISPs cable infrastructure (e.g. Comcast's ...
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Why is there so much fuss about an internet “fast lane” for a privileged few? [closed]
Preferred access for those who can afford it is most of the time the rule and not the exception.
Some examples are, if you pay more then you can get:
First class flights
Better medical treatment
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Would the Clayton Antitrust Act prevent the proposed “Fast Lane” of the internet problem with net neutrality?
Many people are going on about how the merger of Comcast and Time Warner will enable them to create a lane for the internet where wealthier individuals or companies can pay more for a 'faster lane.' ...
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Why has North Korea been assigned IP addresses?
Until recently, the Internet has been under control of its inventor, the US.
If I understand correctly the ICANN and the IANA have been administrating IP address space and the domain name system ...
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Has hacking a website been effective to spread a political message?
Because hacking in such a manner is unethical, it makes me wonder why people do such a thing and whether spreading a message in this manner will gain any sympathy from the rest of the world.
Are ...
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What is the economic argument for taxing sales at the place of purchaser instead of the place of provider?
tl;dr> When a transaction occurs over the internet, why do you collect sales tax in the purchaser's home state, and not the producers?
This article in The Economist: "Click and Pay" ...
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Are internet petitions a practical way to accomplish grass roots political goals?
Are internet petitions a practical way to accomplish grass roots political goals? For example, the White House has a mechanism to petition the president to take action. Are there some kinds of ...
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What challenges remain for online voting?
In 2011, nearly a quarter (24.3%) of participating voters in Estonia cast their ballot by remote electronic voting (that is, on their computer/phone/tablet via the Internet). Several larger countries,...
