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0 pointssimmerup3y ago0 comments

I honestly think that should be done anyway. For example, if Britain blocked Facebook for not being consumer friendly what would we really lose? Facebook would be recreated over night. The profits would be kept in country. And in addition, we might have a slightly better barrier against the American culture seeping into the country.

Sure, we could lose some app integrations but if the internet was more segregated API standards would be developed to mitigate this.

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dmw_ng3y ago

Ofcom are slowly getting their teeth back with upcoming regulation (3 decades late IMO), but in answer to "what would we really lose?", we'd likely suffer immediate tit-for-tat responses from the US if we attempted to meaningfully regulate or partition our media from theirs again.

I don't think anyone who has spent much time thinking about it sees the Russia/China/Iran firewalls as a bad thing, but we aren't them and we can't regulate our media in the same way.

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moonchrome3y ago

That's ridiculous - for a lot of people I know number one use case for Facebook is keeping in touch with people that move away - very often out of country.

Rebuilding social network would take a long time, having it country specific would be pointlessly limiting.

Chunking up internet between countries would be going down further into isolationism for GB since they aren't even a part of EU anymore.

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