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[–] 74 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Thank God we’ve got the government here to protect us.

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  • [–] 57 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Can't let the children have access to an Encyclopedia. Too dangerous. We have ChatGPT to give them all the information they need.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    They might look up adult content like "balls" or "boobs"

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    I remember doing that with a regular dictionary in middle school english class

    edit: Yes I was scarred for life. Wish the government had intervened.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    heck I can still remember the way to the shelf in my local library that contained a nat geo book on various tribes that, of course, contained boobs.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I can’t believe they let you see pictures of other naked humans as a small human!! What a failure of federal government

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  • [–] 66 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They should just block UK traffic like the porn sites do. This is an excellent way to lose a resource the government regularly uses.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Bold of you to assume the govt won’t just use the same VPNs they’ll ban the proles from having.

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    To download Wikipedia to your computer for offline use, see here: https://kiwix.org/en/

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago*

    Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don't have access to unfederated information and educational outlets?

    The adults of next generation!

    Fuck this new world order.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They're gonna lose next election harder than Tories and I'm not even going to feel sorry for them.

    It'll fuck me and my family over big time. More than Brexit did. I was always powerless to change anything here, they'll vote reform and they'll go even harder on this shit. Thatcher 2.0 incoming.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    You're blaming the current government for a law that was brought in by the previous government.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm sorry, which government told us they're not going to discuss this even after the very system designed to bring things up to their attention passed the threshold?

    You don't get to hide behind "it was done before we got here" when you're actively pushing for it.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I sure wish Wikipedia would just grow a pair and outright block UK IP addresses.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is it just me or is this Labour government more far right than the previous Tory one?

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is actually a Tory policy, where the law was passed by the previous Tory government and came into force under labour.

    That's not a get out of jail card, because they could have stopped it, and instead choose to continue it, just like they continued the NHS anti trans policies. Or the way they choose to continue the same austerity budget rules.

    At this point, I'd say they're exactly as right wing as the Tories.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Labour have always had a bad track record of civil liberties. Although as the other reply notes this was a Tory policy initially, I've not gone over the proposed amendments to see if they'd have implemented it slightly differently (I suspect not). Unfortunately policies like these are both popular and free for the govt to implement so it's literally a no-brainer for MPs to vote through without thinking about consequences.

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