List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom

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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The UK is pretty repressive, but I don't think that list is really much of an example. I mean, they blocked Wayback Machine for 3 days, and some torrent site? La dee dah.

I guess you could argue that the mere existence of such a list is a problem. I sympathize somewhat. But once the Windsor-Bush-Soros cabal took their guns, I think it was inevitable that the Brits would slide into latter-day serfdom.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What do you expect in a country that will arrest you for a retweet?

[–]MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Changing the name England into ‘Airstrip One’?

[–]MilanorSwolf 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've heard there's even a lot of repression going. It's rather scary to say the least...

[–]ashleymartinez 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol why

[–]jerryk 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

It's a common misconception that Europe has freedom of speech. It does not. Even Canada doesn't really have nearly the level of freedom of speech that the U.S. has. Putin's Russia is no more restrictive of freedom of speech than the rest of Europe is.

[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

harry and megan were sent here to ruin free speech, the royal family hating them thing is fake

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Putin's Russia is no more restrictive of freedom of speech than the rest of Europe is.

Lol which russian website did you read that on?

This is just a tiny snapshot of how public mood is managed in the muscovite enpire

https://web.archive.org/web/20220907164018/https://twitter.com/unnamedleftist/status/1567553100562530306

They detonated a grenade in a kid's mouth because he moderated a telegram group they didn't like. I think about him a lot. He name was Salman Tepsurkayev and he was 19.

[–]newguy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Putin's Russia is no more restrictive of freedom of speech than the rest of Europe is.

doubt. The are photoshop pictures of putin that are illegal in russia (that make him look gay or whatever). There are no pictures that are illegal of government workers in the EU. Just one example of many.

[–]twolanterns 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

sounds like reddit with biden ?

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Reddit aren't going to send you to prison

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

they'll just make it look like a suicide

[–]twolanterns 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

no they will censor you

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

aaron schwarz is pretty well censored forever

[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I think I missed the chapter of 1984 where someone tabulated and organised an encyclopedia page of banned content.

Doesn't seem very 1984, at all, really. Can you please get the equivalent page for China and Ruzzia?

Aaah, here we go, this is the 1984 I was rozkomnadzor for

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Russia

[–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To be fair, nobody went "1984" here. It's just a post describing the blocked websites. I agree this isn't a 1984-like thing.

I think the term "1984" lost meaning as well.

5 people even found some blockings funny.

[–]MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Airstrip One is the present day United Kingdom. It is a part of the continent of Oceania. London, where Winston lives, is on Airstrip One.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

1984 is not supposed to be a "how to" guide.

[–]newguy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's like all the peons who read 1984 didn't get the message, and the people who did get the message used it to gain power. And wasn't orwell in a ton of secret societies? Maybe it was a "how to" guide after all.

Maybe we have to read 1984 in school so that we are traumatized by it, and it lays the groundwork in our minds for what is currently happening in the real world. Perhaps 1984 is predictive programming, not a warning. Remember what happens at the end?

Winston learns to love big brother.

How about Brave New World? We had to read that too. The protagonist gets cast away to an island and left to die.

Warnings, or predictive programming? Do you believe school's purpose was to prepare us for the real world, or to mold us in to compliant citizens and workers?

If you've studied how the Prussian Schooling system, which was designed purely to engineer obedience, was re-applied in an industrial setting to create the US school system, you'd know the answer.

[–]GB43[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How about Brave New World? We had to read that too. The protagonist gets cast away to an island and left to die.

"How about Brave New World? We had to read that too. The protagonist gets cast away to an island and left to die."

Sounds only slightly worse than the US healthcare system.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Someone should tell North Korea, they didn't get the memo.