So the UK government has announced that mandatory “porn” filters will come into effect on July 15th (in an hilarious GDPR-breaching email.)
But they have also had to exclude platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram from the filter because otherwise they’d have been insta-blocked to everyone.
It strikes me that this might be a foretaste of what is to come - there is the possibility that those copyright filters won’t actually be enforced on the big platforms because otherwise they would all be closed down straight away. It’s merely those upstarts who want to do something small or quiet, out of the way and not in any way threatening any of the copyright giants who will be squashed. Oh, wait, late-period capitalism again, right?
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