Quantum is high-risk: There's no guarantee it's even possible.

The CPU may be hard to design, but it's also commodity - there's nothing special about them, so putting them on export control is pointless. If you need a four thousand processors for your super you can just buy a thousand servers from HP. You might have to substitute GPU cards for the Phi, but even those can be obtained as application accelerators for certain servers if you look hard enough.

The interconnect is non-commodity: The number of computers that actually need FDR Infiniband switches is very small. You can't just walk into PC World and buy them, which means export controls might actually work.

"It's not just personal houses either. What about the drones used by activists to fly over industrial operations breaking the law and get footage of it? "

That's already illegal in many states. Indeed, it's considered a form of terrorism to film on a farm without permission in some states. The agricultural lobby is very powerful, and after a long series of covertly filmed videos revealing mistreatment of animals they set to work writing laws to make sure animal welfare activists could be prevented from filming any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The fox says 'Yiff.'

Their codename betrays them: I wouldn't name a drone Aquila unless it has some high-resolution cameras.

I counter with another industry: Piracy. Look at the pirate bay. Tracker sites are illegal in almost every country, yet they routinely operate for years on end before the law can finish cutting through the tangle and actually get anything done about them.

You could even combine them - put your porn up on the Pirate Bay for distribution and collect money through included advertising in the videos or bitcoin donations.

As you request.

The survey was conducted by OnePoll. They describe their survey service as "Survey-led storytelling. Our PR surveys generate data driven content for brands & agencies."

http://www.onepoll.com/

Why stick to European? This is the internet age. I can live in London, host my site in Russia and take my payment through a grey-market intermediary in India, all done using developers from Bangladesh and registered (for tax purposes) in Gurnsey.

It's probably safe to assume the plan has 'national censor firewall' as a later component.

We run a system of proportionalish nonrepresentation, with an election held whenever it rains three times on a Thursday.

And yet the situation is still better than in the US.

Those ones were. The Childline survey has been quite throughly discredited: They hired a survey company that actually brags on their website about being able to generate whatever conclusion their customer requires, and the methodology was flawed in several serious ways.

I think that is the plan.
1. Demand self-regulation and age verification, knowing this is an impossible demand.
2. When very few sites adopt age verification, use this lack of action to justify intrusive government regulation.
3. National firewall to censor all the porn sites hosted overseas, along with anything else the governments wants gone.

The Daily Mail is one of the main driving forces behind this anti-porn campaign.

They don't like the competition.

Non-brit explanations: The 'Daily Wail' is a newspaper known for stiring up moral outrage, usually against 'benefit cheats' or immigrants. They have been running a campaign urging action be taken against internet pornography for some time. Their front page is usually filled with the latest gossip columns showing pictures of celebrities in bikinis that cover very little skin, and promises more more 'exclusive photos' at the article.

Bandwidth is going to be tight on a large-scale wireless network. I hope Google have some plans for a distributed caching system too, because they are going to need it if they want video distribution to work.