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1. gethly+cG2[view] [source] 2025-10-01 07:16:06
>>ANewbu+(OP)
In short, governments and internet do no mix. Whenever they do, it ends in a disaster for the people.
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2. tim333+D93[view] [source] 2025-10-01 12:42:30
>>gethly+cG2
Pretty much all countries have governments and the internet and I'd say it tends to end in annoyance rather than disaster, such as having to turn on a vpn to see junk on imgur in this case.

The only actual internet caused disaster I can think of - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide - was caused by a lack of regulation and "let's kill them all" stuff on facebook. 25k+ dead.

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3. Sidebu+nb3[view] [source] 2025-10-01 12:55:33
>>tim333+D93
Everything that Cambridge Analytica did is another good example [1]. Granted that it doesn't rise to the level of a "25k+ dead disaster", but it's not nothing, it's a lot of bad things. And it also stems from lack of regulation, not from the opposite. As will other examples.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Elections

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