{"id":6481,"date":"2017-10-06T07:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T10:51:00","slug":"britain-considers-15-years-in-prison-for-reading-banned-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/britain-considers-15-years-in-prison-for-reading-banned-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain announces 15 years in prison for reading banned literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 125%; font-weight: 600;\">British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. However, the threat of prison only covers new story formats that lawmakers think don\u2019t deserve the same kind of protection as old-fashioned books: it\u2019s only people who <em>watch video on the Internet<\/em> who will be put in prison, and only when they watch something that <em>promotes terrorism,<\/em> whatever that means this week.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-41479620.amp\">reports<\/a> that people reading banned books will face 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Except, it\u2019s not books; were it books, lawmakers would understand the value of open debate and art, and would never dream of putting people in prison for reading. No, it\u2019s the new \u201cmoving pictures\u201d format, <em>video,<\/em> which British lawmakers have learned from experts that it\u2019s only used for violence-promoting dangers-to-society like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre\">Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just in the violence-glorifying video format, it\u2019s also on the horrible Internet, which British lawmakers have learned can\u2019t be any good; at best the Internet is a luxury that can be taken away from citizens when they\u2019ve been misbehaving.<\/p>\n<p>So the title of this story is a little off: it\u2019s not honorable <em>books<\/em> that are being banned, it\u2019s this horrible thing called the Internet and the worst of the worst, <em>video<\/em> on the Internet, and only when it promotes <em>terrorism<\/em>, which is basically anything a government doesn\u2019t like on a particular Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>This, again, shows why we need to think in terms of <strong>Analog Equivalent Rights<\/strong>: the notion that our children must have the same rights in their digital environment, as our parents had in their analog environment. Correction: our children should have <em>at least<\/em> the same rights. This shouldn\u2019t even be controversial.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers would never <em>dream<\/em> of banning books, any books, much less put people in prison for reading one. They understand what a book is, they\u2019ve seen what happens to societies that ban and burn books, they grew up with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Eighty-Four\">stories<\/a> (books!) about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451\">dystopias<\/a> where you could go to prison for reading the wrong book.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious to the net generation that reading text on the Internet is no different from reading a book.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious to people born after 1970 that watching video can be just as educational as reading, be it current affairs debate, formal education, political commentary, or anything else; it is no different education-wise than reading a book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, putting people in prison for watching video on the Internet is conceptually no different from putting people in prison for reading a book the government doesn\u2019t like. But the offline-born politicians don\u2019t understand this, and are putting society as a whole at risk through digital book burning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As to the government\u2019s definition of <em>terrorism<\/em>, it has lost all meaning: remember that a peaceful protests are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/aclu-challenges-defense-department-personnel-policy-regard-lawful-protests-low-level\">formally classified<\/a> as \u201cLow-level terrorism\u201d in government training material. Yes, that\u2019s a peaceful assembly to petition a grievance about policy, exactly that is considered terrorism. That\u2019s why new special police units <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2015\/02\/03\/nypd-commissioner-because-terrorism-protests-are-roughly-same-thing-new-special-unit-will-handle-both\/\">handle both<\/a> \u2014 kind of like in those <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V_for_Vendetta\">old stories<\/a>, where police were dispatched for your protection if you read the wrong book.<\/p>\n<p>As for viewing actual \u201cterror content\u201d, like bomb-making instructions \u2014 such instructions can be found in any high school chemistry book, if one were to look for the word \u201cexothermic reaction\u201d, which you learn to calculate with precision early in high school chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy and freedom of speech remain your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. 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