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...or England?
by jcwayne 10y ago
...or England?
- koolba 10y agoI don't recall a $20 opt out for England. Also, I think the plan there is to tap the network (i.e your ISP), not the devices themselves.
- pjc50 10y agoThe British(+) proposed system is much more extreme - complete ISP-level censorship of listed sites. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/digital-economy-bill-hub/stop-uk-censorship-of-legal-content https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/digital-economy-bi... (+) It's not a devolved matter.
- paganel 10y agoAnd apparently if you show women squirting in your porn videos you're breaking some other English law. It's like some people over there are back in the Victorian era.
- Cyph0n 10y agoI can think of much worse things to ban than squirting.
- pjc50 10y agoI think it's just regular old hypocrisy. I'm sure we can find examples of the newspaper with bare-breasted women on Page 3 running a campaign against internet porn. It doesn't help that the UK opposition is in total disarray at the moment and Brexit dominates all news cycles.
- ue_ 10y agoAlso don't forget that drawn representations of completely fictional people who even appear (the wording used is "predominantly conveys") a child engaged in any kind of sexual act, or a focus on the genitals, is illegal to even possess. The UK is a state that does not care about freedom of speech. I can't find the parliamentary debate right now, but someone argued that possession should not be a crime - and a Tory MP retorted that "well mere possession of cannabis is illegal, so what's wrong with making this illegal too?" I feel like there is no hope, and I don't think there is hope. The UK is not founded on the principles of liberty or libertarianism, the populace doesn't care for it or they are actively against it ("think of the children!"), the people in parliament don't care about evidence, etc. The world is turning more and more against freedom of expression it feels.