Haven't they been that for a long time? Wasn't Britain the country that pushed for that EU directive that required all ISPs to save all the traffic of their use

Haven't they been that for a long time? Wasn't Britain the country that pushed for that EU directive that required all ISPs to save all the traffic of their users? They were also the ones that tried doing website blacklists and are trying to censor social media (google: "girl punished for hate crime for posting rap lyrics"). What does the UK have to do so that people will accept that the UK is lying when it calls itself a free country? Start arresting people for speech? For activism? Kill protesters?