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The legal system of the UK ends at their border. They don't get to control what I see, hear or say. This is a fact to be celebrated indeed.
by abigail95 2y ago
The legal system of the UK ends at their border. They don't get to control what I see, hear or say. This is a fact to be celebrated indeed.
- jjgreen 2y agoI'd go further and say that the geoblocking by the New Yorker is excessive. If the UK doesn't want its population accessing what is freely visible in the rest of the world, it should institute a firewall itself.
- kwhitefoot 2y agoDon't suggest such a thing. I'm quite confident that plenty of the population would be perfectly happy with that so long as there was an exception for internet shopping and that there are plenty of politicians who would do their best to put a positive spin on it.
- jjgreen 2y agoYou'll be fine, it would be subcontracted out to Capita or the like who would make a pig's ear of the project but come in at 5 times the original budget; then it would be cancelled 2 months before completion and the minister responsible would get a job on the board.
- kwhitefoot 2y agoI've been living outside the UK for so long I'd forgotten about Capita! Long live Capita! :-)
- LoganDark 2y ago"outsourcing companies" exist?
- Someone 2y agoSo, should the UK government read every newspaper before it is published, every webpage that gets loaded inside the UK, every tweet viewed in the UK, etc. to check whether it deems it acceptable for UK citizens to see it? If the government had the tech to do that it would be awfully easy to misuse it.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoThen, since I'm reading this in the UK, that's illegal?
- mjw1007 2y agoI don't think they have any desire to control what you see, because you're not going to be on the jury in her next trial.