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One good thing about this, maybe pols in other countries will learn how dumb this is when this law only causes real harm to the UK economy. With this and bexit
by jmclnx 4y ago
One good thing about this, maybe pols in other countries will learn how dumb this is when this law only causes real harm to the UK economy. With this and bexit, it is like the UK is trying to become a "third word" country on purpose.
But, I fear all this will do is make other countries double down on these laws. I have said this before, "what is wrong with English speaking countries?". It is like the language makes people try stupid fixes to problems that do not exist.
- Neil44 4y agoProblems that do not exist? The Internet is the absolute wild west of crime and harm.
- 1827163 4y agoAnd so much of those problems could be solved by not using our real names everywhere, and allowing it to be a wild west for freedom of speech, as it rightly should be. Where we can debate anything without fear of censorship, which in many cases is given the euphemism of 'moderation'. There should be no excuse to delete any comment that is not illegal (i.e. threatening or inciting violence), when you can just hide it, and those who want to see it can click to see it. I am totally outraged, it is moral injury, from what has happened to the Internet in 2023, where people have just accepted routine censorship of legal speech, barely batting an eyelid to it when it happens. If it continues at this pace, where will the people who still care fundamentally about freedom of speech, as I do, have a place to go to? I guess they will end up being branded 'free speech extremists' and be subjected to surveillance by state intelligence agencies....
- mypornaccount 4y ago“Harm” seems to be a disturbingly broad newspeak term that’s getting thrown around more and more to justify censorship.