First it's optional, and then it won't be. Do people from UK realize that the government, intelligence agencies, and the police see no end in sight for this typ

First it's optional, and then it won't be. Do people from UK realize that the government, intelligence agencies, and the police see no end in sight for this type of (ab)use of surveillance and censorship technology? To me at least it has seemed obvious for some time that the UK government wants to emulate China in this regard. So they see China as a "role model" to be followed. I mean GCHQ has even proposed a Great British Firewall for crying out loud. But like with the porn filter, they will promise to block only the "really bad stuff" with it -- at first. Both "democratic" and undemocratic governments of the world have woken up to the fact that the internet gives people "too much freedom", so they are all working to restrict that freedom, with all sorts of "plausible justifications".