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Wtf is wrong with UK? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by badgrandpa@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-uks-controversial-online-safety-act-is-now-law

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[–] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you read 1984? The UK was always using it as an instruction manual and trying to do their best Airstrip One impression.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Its kind of ironic that 1984 takes place in the same country

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Conservatives (big C) have always been like this. But lately they've gotten an undeserved confidence boost from the likes of Trump, and the GOP in general and their "reality is what you say it is" attitude to politics. The idea they could just outright lie about stuff hadn't really occurred to them prior to that point.

So that's for that Americans.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I think you are missing the point. A lot of these laws are bipartisan. What we are seeing is the slow increase in tyrany.

Don't believe modern news sources. They will only remote news that supports there political agenda and they are nothing more than propaganda machines at this point

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Ingsoc is here. It's just more dull and pervasive and creepy than the flashy story version.