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Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind: From porn to Bitcoin, governments can't control the web — so why is Cameron trying? 

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23 November 2013

9:00 AM

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

What people don’t seem to realise is that the geeks are winning. Actually, scratch that. They’ve all but won. The world just hasn’t realised yet. So, when the likes of David Cameron talk of, say, blocking regular porn, or eradicating child porn, people take him seriously, as though this might actually be a thing in his power to do.

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