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happymellontoday at 9:38 AM2 repliesview on HN

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the war on anonymity was first (just) passed in the US at a state level as porn laws before it passed in the UK.

Are we pretending that the porn id laws weren't a first attempt at getting forums like Reddit that might "accidentally" have naked pictures liable and therefore profile everyone?

Because this is leaning on blaming to UK for everything the US is doing to itself an awful lot.


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GoblinSlayertoday at 10:31 AM

This, it boomeranged.

xienzetoday at 10:50 AM

> Because this is leaning on blaming to UK for everything the US is doing to itself an awful lot.

Hasn't the UK had a culture of surveillance (the famous CCTV cameras) and arresting people over online wrongthink for quite some time though? Who inspired who?

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