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You'd be amazed at the times I've argued with people on HN that free speech infringement by the UK government has grown rampant, only for them to enact the next
by selfmodruntime 7mo ago
You'd be amazed at the times I've argued with people on HN that free speech infringement by the UK government has grown rampant, only for them to enact the next draconian law a month later.
- dmix 7mo agoUK is trying to be like Russia and China, where a minder will show up at your door if you post something the government doesn't like. Then people online will defend it because the investigation didn't turn into a full criminal charge or they say the people simply deserved it. The reality is this will seriously chill speech broadly across the country regardless of either of those outcomes, and the technical costs of enforcement will be steep.
- 4ndrewl 7mo agoWe don't have any pro-free-speech political parties, nor a written constitution unfortunately. I mean there are parties that say they like free speech, but it never extends to the sort of speech they disagree with, or by people of the wrong colour/religion/gender etc.
- hunterpayne 7mo ago"UK is trying to be like Russia and China, where a minder will show up at your door if you post something the government doesn't like." The UK government has been openly doing this for a couple of years by now.
- vdqtp3 7mo agoSame. The responses are consistently "but they only restrict bad speech"