> edit: anyone downvoting actually live in the UK?
Yes.
> Any of you actually have any hard facts? Or are you just regurgitating the crap you read on the internet.
Ok, what counts has hard facts and not just "read on the internet" that you have that the rest of us don't?
> It's nothing whatsoever about censorship.
Drivel. Pure and simply wrong. This is the infrastructure of censorship. The fact that it's only going to be applied to censor "think of the children!" things may be true, but it is handing enormous power to censor whatever they chose to this government, the next government, and the governments after that. The boundaries can change. Actually that's the point of the article, did you take anything on board from that?
There are several posters elsewhere in this discussion who have witnessed it firsthand in other countries. Is that hard fact enough? it's not a forgone conclusion that the UK will slide down the same slippery slope, but that's no reason to be complacent about it. This is a nasty thing that should be resisted.
Yes.
> Any of you actually have any hard facts? Or are you just regurgitating the crap you read on the internet.
Ok, what counts has hard facts and not just "read on the internet" that you have that the rest of us don't?
> It's nothing whatsoever about censorship.
Drivel. Pure and simply wrong. This is the infrastructure of censorship. The fact that it's only going to be applied to censor "think of the children!" things may be true, but it is handing enormous power to censor whatever they chose to this government, the next government, and the governments after that. The boundaries can change. Actually that's the point of the article, did you take anything on board from that?
There are several posters elsewhere in this discussion who have witnessed it firsthand in other countries. Is that hard fact enough? it's not a forgone conclusion that the UK will slide down the same slippery slope, but that's no reason to be complacent about it. This is a nasty thing that should be resisted.