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At this point I would support not backing down purely to set an example of our own.
Exactly. There are obvious problems with this conundrum and the government's move is not ideal but then the situation we're in is also not ideal. The implications of leaving it unmitigated are eating into our democracy and without a functioning democracy, there's no functioning world wide web. And so as a firm supporter of the WWW, I find myself having to stick for our government and our media oligopoly (🤢) on this one even if it's not ideal from the WWW lens. It feels a bit like chemotherapy. We have to do it even if we harm some systems because otherwise many more systems will go. 🤷