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1984@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

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The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

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1984@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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WhatsApp and Signal have threatened to shut down services in Britain if the Online Safety Bill includes restrictions that undermine encryption. The government is pushing it through anyway.
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    You can use Kiwix to save an offline copy of all sorts of stuff like Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg! They’re smaller than you might think too, all of Wikipedia is only about 80 gb IIRC.

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      For those interested in getting an offline copy of Wikipedia, check this site. There are lots of options.

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      It says it’s terabytes of data

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