Russia, China, Brazil, India -- all have similar censorship systems but Americans don't find it as troubling because those countries aren't part of the same shared cultural identity known as "The West".
Americans simply aren't qualified to talk on matters of censorship or surveillance, period. Post-Patriot Act, you are a slave to the NSA with zero legal or technical recourse that would afford you privacy.
Be careful throwing legislative stones from glass houses.
Nope. It's because we don't have to pay a digital service tax in any of those countries (except in Russia, where American companies no longer operate due to sanctions considerations). And it's always been about DST [0][1].
No one in the policy space who is able to reach a position to affect power gives a s### about ideology unless it is a deeply personal issue for that person, and for most policymakers (who are overwhelmingly non-technical in my experience), digital free speech absolutism just isn't something they care about at a personal level.
> Nope. It's because we don't have to pay a digital service tax in any of those countries (except in Russia, where American companies no longer operate due to sanctions considerations). And it's always been about DST [0][1].
Then your government should pass BEPS Pillar 1, so that this doesn't happen. You can't have your cake and eat it.
The deal was that BEPS would replace the digital services taxes, and lots of countries implemented it on the basis. However the US has not implemented this (for whatever reason), which means DSTs are back on the table.
From a geo-political standpoint I'd expect to see them pretty soon, especially if the US abandons Ukraine.
Comparing Brazil and India to Russia and China is just retarded.
Also India is more liberal than western Europe in a lot of ways.
For example, French laicite means no display of religious symbols publicly, while India allows a wide variety of religious symbols, having some of the largest mosques, churches and temples in the world
Moreover, in India people openly criticize other religions, while England jails people for such things. This idea that Europe is liberal and no one else is just myopicism
European hubris makes them believe that they are uniquely liberal. European countries can hardly deal with a small number of other cultures.
