Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force
Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force
Take the article with a grain of Salt, it seems that the site is run by this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Young
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Read the comments in the other threads. Free Speech Union is run by an utter bell end called Toby Young, who resembles a potato but lacks the intelligence.
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I put a disclaimer under the article to take it with a grain of salt considering that the person running the site is shady and seems to be into eugenics yikes.
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At LeAsT wE aReN’t ChInA aMiRiTe
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China is like a level of 1984 lol. :3
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What is happening in the UK in the last year or so? I keep seeing crazy headlines like this every so often.
The online safety act requiring ID, police showing up at old people's houses for their Facebook/twitter posts, or that one time someone suggested they would try to extradite Americans for the same thing. Where is this coming from all of a sudden?
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It could just be the parts of the internet I inhabit, but I don't think it's really a recent thing, I think it's just hitting a point where the masses are really starting to take notice of it.
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing memes about CCTV cameras and such in the UK about 20 years ago now, and I don't think it's an accident that things like 1984 and V for Vendetta were written by British authors and set there.
As an outsider, it's certainly looked to me like the UK has been kind of a nanny state for a long time, and it's not a long walk from there to the kind of bullshit we're seeing more of now.
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You're probably right. I bet I'm being US-centric to just assume everyone there values free speech/expression with the same cultural intensity.
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U.K. politicians seeing what's happening in the U.S. and getting ideas. But since the U.K. doesn't have any actual rights like in the U.S. they can enact their bullshit faster.
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The centre left government are afraid of losing voters to the far right party, so they’re cutting out the middle man and implementing crazy authoritarian policies first.
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Labour won in a landslide after the Brexit mess rightfully fucked up the Tories. They do this because they aren't center left, but a right/far-right party by their ideology now. They don't have to do this. They want to do this.
The "Labour/Social Democratic" parties all over Europe have been sliding into right/far-right authoritarianism and Racism over the past decades, after many of them slided into Neoliberalism at the end of the 90s and in the 2000s.
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Whats been happening? Betrail in the people. The biggest in UK history
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Literally what we have been calling out China for since forever. Suppressing any and all content that isnt deemed "safe" is such an obvious attempt at censorship.
"Attempt"? 🤔
Yeah idk what i was thinking there...
"Attempt at disguising censorship" perhaps.