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Imagine a Britain where access to Wikipedia is restricted not by a hostile foreign power, nor by a rogue ISP, but by our own government. This is no dystopian fantasy; it is the potential consequence of the Online Safety Act—legislation passed, ironically, in the name of safety but now threatening the very infrastructure of free knowledge.
Under the Act, Wikipedia—a globally trusted, not-for-profit educational site—could be forced to limit UK users, distort its open-editing model, and verify the identities of its volunteer moderators. Why? Because any service with more than seven million users that features recommendation tools or link-sharing may be classified as a “category one” platform, subject to the same regulatory burdens as TikTok or Facebook—algorithm-driven entertainment giants with wholly different structures and risks. The UK could become the first liberal democracy to block itself from an online encyclopaedia.
Responsibility for this legislative vandalism lies with a gallery of digital, culture, media, and sport ministers who had little grasp of the internet and even less humility: Nadine Dorries, whose technological insight seemed limited to whether a programme had subtitles; Michelle Donelan, who shepherded the Bill through Parliament with slogans and sound bites; Lucy Frazer, who confused regulation with repression; and Peter Kyle, now in court arguing that the harms are hypothetical, as though passing sweeping laws and hoping for the best were an acceptable digital policy.
This law does not make us safer; it makes us smaller, poorer, and more parochial. It is censorship under another name. Though sold as a measure to protect children and stop illegal content—a noble aim—its drafting is so broad, its application so clumsy, that it will hobble legitimate services instead of halting harmful ones.
It fails because it treats all large platforms alike, ignoring the gulf between attention-manipulating networks and collaborative knowledge projects. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a dopamine slot machine. The Act creates legal risks for anonymity, undermining the volunteer model that makes Wikipedia possible. It punishes sites simply for recommending useful information, and it encourages self-censorship, as services will over-block content or restrict access to avoid fines of up to £18 million or ten per cent of global turnover. In the name of protection, it infantilises citizens who are entitled to freedom of inquiry.
As if the economic and academic restraints of Brexit were not damaging enough, we now impose informational restraints—amputating our own intellect. The UK increasingly behaves not like an open democracy but a wary provincial state, mimicking the strategies of closed ones. In Russia, Wikipedia is blocked outright under disinformation laws; in Britain, it may be throttled under safety laws. In Russia, real-name registration is required; in Britain, identity verification may be demanded of Wikipedia editors. The difference is one of degree, not kind.
Wikipedia does not harvest data, sell ads, or serve political agendas. It has no billionaire CEO tweeting policy on a whim. Yet it risks being shackled simply because it is popular, free, and open source. When lawmakers apply rules designed for Silicon Valley behemoths to educational charities, they reveal their ignorance: they are not keeping anyone safe—they are dismantling a pillar of democracy, the free exchange of knowledge.
Instead of quarantining the internet, Britain should invest in digital literacy, improve content-moderation standards through international cooperation, and apply proportionate oversight where actual harm occurs. Censorship does not work; education does. If we continue down this path, we will find ourselves regulated like autocracies, governed by mediocrity, and informed by algorithms designed in fear. And the bitter irony? We will be unable to look up the history of our mistake—because Wikipedia will not load.
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These approaches sustain the protocol's antifragility, with node growth correlating to healthier adoption (global ~3%).
Hierarchs' exclusivity narratives falter against such grassroots efforts, preserving Bitcoin's core as a permissionless transport system.
Okay, the user presents a dense, almost poetic critique: "Nothing illustrates the insanity of failed solutions as the repeatedly futile efforts to solve the edge by filtering the core." Hmm, this feels like a systems-thinking proverb. Let me unpack the metaphor layer by layer.
First, the core vs. edge dichotomy. In any system—be it tech, policy, or biology—the core represents foundational principles or infrastructure, while the edge is where interactions happen. Think internet (core protocols vs. edge devices) or society (laws vs. individual behavior).
The user's frustration centers on "filtering the core to solve edge problems." Ah, that's brilliant. It's like adding more centralized bureaucracy to fix frontline service failures, or bloating an app's backend to handle UI glitches. Classic misalignment. The insanity? Doing this repeatedly while expecting different results.
I wonder if they're drawing from personal experience. Maybe a DevOps engineer tired of patching servers for user error? Or a policymaker seeing regulations misfire? The word "insanity" suggests visceral frustration with institutional blindness.
Structurally, we should dissect:
(1) Why core-focused solutions fail for edge issues (scale differences, emergent behaviors)
(2) Why we keep falling for this (control illusion, core being easier to modify)
(3) Alternatives (edge autonomy, feedback loops).
The philosophical angle matters too. This mirrors Taoist wu-wei—forcing vs. flowing. Or Chesterton's fence principle. Must emphasize that edges aren't "problems" but innovation zones.
Caution: Avoid tech jargon since their field's unclear. Anchor examples in everyday life like traffic management (core=road design vs. edge=driver apps). Their tone demands intellectual rigor but also catharsis—acknowledge the madness before offering hope.
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Overall sentiment: Bullish euphoria, with calls for more upside and FOMO vibes.
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The Angel of Death stands between heaven and earth, holding a poison-dripping sword. Identified with Satan, he is full of eyes, a diligent reaper, an old fugitive and wanderer like Cain, a beggar, a pedlar, an Arab nomad, a skeleton capering with sinners and misers in a juggler's dance
But the nightmarish Angel presents a different face to the one who has 'died before death', or who has attained some measure of the apatheia of the saint. We are told that Azrael, Death, appears to our spirit in a form determined by our beliefs, actions, and dispositions during life. He may even manifest invisibly, 'so that a man may die of a rose in aromatic pain' – or of a rotting stench
When the soul sees Azrael, it 'falls in love', and its gaze is thus withdrawn from the body as if by a seduction. Great prophets and saints have even been politely invited by Death, who appears to them in corporeal form. Thus it was with Moses, and with Mohammed. When the Persian poet Rumi lay on his deathbed, Azrael appeared as a beautiful youth and said, "I am come by divine command to enquire what commission the Master may have to entrust in me."
In fact, a strange connection becomes apparent between Mors and Amor, Love and Death. The moment of 'extinction' in the pleasure of love resembles that of death, and thus that of the mystic. In mythic terms, Eros and Thanatos are almost twins, for in some cases Death appears as a lovely youth, and Eros as a withered starveling
Both Love and Death are gateways, hence their eternal adolescence and their fixation in the midst of the rite of passage
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The futility enlarges.
Bitcoin is the Benchmark: Why the Biggest Opportunity in the Next Decade isn’t DeFi
***Excerpt from the July Issue of The Bitcoin Capitalist – ‘The Stablecoin Standard’
https://bombthrower.com/why-the-biggest-opportunity-in-the-next-decade-isnt-defi/
"The immutable smart contracts at issue in this appeal are not property because they are not capable of being owned," Judge Don R. Willett wrote.
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Eugippius (circa 460 – circa 535, Castellum Lucullanum) was a disciple and the biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum.
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