> if you think the UK in any manner is an authoritarian unaccountable state. COVID hysteria aside And punishment for tweeting mean things aside: https://www.th

> if you think the UK in any manner is an authoritarian unaccountable state. COVID hysteria aside And punishment for tweeting mean things aside: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-... And dragnet surveillance aside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016?lang=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016?... And the likely introduction of complete monetary surveillance and control aside: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/uk-plans-20-000-limit-for-individual-holdings-of-digital-pounds https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/uk-plans-... The slope is indeed slippery, and the UK is very far down it already.