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1) The point isn't to regulate the internet, it's to regulate what UK citizens can see.

2) The great firewall was complicated by the design goal of accessing some, but not all, foreign websites. The UK could accomplish their goals in a day or two by just cutting all the underwater cables. That sounds like an impossible crazy thing, but so did Brexit a couple years ago.

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The EU might see that as an act of war......

A large amount (if not the vast majority) of fibre optics from Europe to Americas, go though the UK and cutting them off cuts off the biggest parts of the world from each other.

The EU might also see the UK as an inspiration!

I do not think the European perception of the UK could accurately be described as "inspirational" at the moment.

The UK not. But if anything can be done against Google, Meta, Apple all ideas are welcome for the EU. Those don't pay enough taxes in the EU in relationship to the megaprofits they make and have no respect for the legal framework the EU stands for.

Piggie in the middle submarine cables, not all go through the UK, but it is good to point out the covert politics & nationalism of entities providing tech services or infrastructure, strangely dominated by the US mil funded US tech sector. I wonder why?

https://cryptome.org/fiber-weak.htm

'Cutting' is extreme but the spooky filtering that is almost certainly already in place certainly isn't, as Chinese citizens are all too aware

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