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

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

Check out the federated Ibis and data hoard where you can!

Unfortunately, it's an older version from 2024. Last I heard there were some issues with the software used to create these.

Also the images are lower resolution.

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

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.

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.

"Meanwhile, in the former United States ..."

It's what they should do really. Make the consequences of the law as visible as possible.

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