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Comment by lucasRW

8 days ago

It baffles me that some people vote for socialists and are then surprised to have soviet-style laws.

The Online Safety Bill was introduced by the previous Conservative government.

  • And criticised by the current party in power for not going far enough. Then passed by them

  • The application of that law has nothing to do with online safety. Soviet-style politics are very good at taking a law ("we need to protect children from suicide websites") to turn it into something completely different ("... so we need to censor footage of protesters outside of the Britannia hotel").

It baffles me that some people blame "the other side" for the things "their side" gleefully ushered in.