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- codedokodeIsn't the problem a large number of migrants that are looting the stores, and not social media?Why not ban migrants from getting citizenship? So that they can work for 2-3 years and then must leave. Also, restrict their movement freedom so that they are not allowed to live in the capital.
- elashriAs someone who lived the first Internet block due to protests with similar demands. This feels refreshing and prove that regimes response to wide spread protests they don’t like is not that different.But please don’t call it European spring.
- nomilkWhy not just allow genuinely peaceful protests and take stern police/legal action against all other forms of protest? I don't understand the logic behind cutting access to communications platforms. Seems like an indirect or roundabout way of solving the problem.
- sjdh76Social media permits Broadcasting for Free. One to All messaging. For all other media - radio, satellite, tv, phones broadcasting requires licenses. Why?Cuz Claude Shannon told us if everyone broadcasts on the same frequency noise increases and no one hears anything forcing them into broadcasting at higher and higher power or repeating their messages more and more. Which again increases noise. So Broadcasting has always been licensed and regulated. That solved the Noise problem because people were forced to coordinate use of broadcast spectrum.Social media platforms act as if Shannon doesn't apply. So they do exactly what Shannon predicted. Everyone is broadcasting. No one can be heard clearly. People scream louder and louder. The loudest get locked into arms races. Repeat their messages more and more. At the end of it all Noise hasnt reduced and who gets attention from one day to the next is unpredicatble. And since Platforms dont want to talk about Shannon we are all stuck in some kind of red queen dynamic. People are expending lot of energy. Results are all temporary and unpredictable.
- pjc50During the 2011 London riots, there were proposals to ban Blackberry.
- gregor123915It seems French society will soon embark on the path to total VPNization. Once the government gets a taste of blocking Internet resources, it won't stop.
- ada-h00kIf that were actually to happen, France would no longer be a democracy. At that point, violence against the state would be entirely legitimate.
- mosura“liberticide”Parfait.
- lesspassiveobseSeems like he really wants to limit the spread of videos showcasing the behaviour of the protesters, and their backgrounds... This goes hand in hand with his pathetic speech about how it's all fake news and AI.
- Sopeltitle says DNS, article says access, so which is it?
- bradorAngleter, Liberté, Pomme de terr
- Zenul_AbidinHahahahaGood luck France.You'd think a 1st world country would know about VPNs but not this one
- sylwareReal rioters will dive into no-DNS internet communication. Most internet protocols were designed with DNS independence in mind (read the email RFC, email addresses can have IP literals instead of DNS names which is of paramount importance, which I use BTW).Namely, in the end, they will have to switch off telecommunication as a whole... well, if they are not interested in gathering intelligence about the rioters.And then real rioters will have 'mesh communication devices', and then govs will need EM jammers too.Sooo... govs should work on good and wide spread EM jammers instead of trying to to block DNS...
- maxwellitoCan we have this worldwide and forever?
- shevy-javaCensorship.I am all for eliminating the antisocial media and the billionaires behind them as well, but I fail to see how censorship fixes anything.
- goodcake3963This is dystopian.
- petcat[flagged]