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I'm sorry to say this, but the web ≠ the internet and foreign services ≠ the internet. If it was a question of starting massive invasive national firewalls, or segmenting the national net away from the wider internet through either routing or physical separation, then we are in agreement.
But tbh Twitter and Meta's platforms should be carpet banned from Europe. Reddit can stay, and so can TikTok, but after the history both Mega and Musk's Twitter has had, I think it's perfectly defensible to tell them to fuck off - especially when they target vulnerable people who are impressionable, like the elderly.
And please, no American "slippery slope" argument, because it should be added to the logical fallacies list.
It IS a logical fallacy and it predates the US...
What's the name for the logical fallacy when you attribute a type of logical fallacy to the country that happened to name it?
You don't know and yet you pipe up. There's a logical fallacy in there somewhere.
Have you ever heard of a joke or are those banned on .ml too?
how would you ban any internet service without firewalls or routing? DNS bans are trivial to bypass and maybe I'm not thinking hard enough but I'm out of practical ways to prevent access to Twitter or meta.
There's a barrier to entry in those cases. If you're DNS actively reroutes people are mostly inclined not to try and figure out a way to bypass it - unless bothered, like we see with the porn access law in Florida.
In any case, you can do packet dropping on a routing level from the ISP - which technically isn't a national firewall, even if it serves the same purpose.
Segmenting the internet means doing routing in a way where the link between nodes is actively blocked, which is something completely different and is more what you'll get behind the Chinese "firewall" - when it is more like a physical barrier than a firewall rule, because it'll be impossible to actually facilitate a manual link, whereas a DNS blocking can be more easily bypassed.
There's level to these problems and just having a "national firewall" means nothing, because it doesn't get down to the minutia of what's actually being achieved.