Dear UK. WTF?

UK is lost if they don't act soon. Complaining about migrants destroying their society is considered terrorism. The cops there literally show up and arrest you for gardening tools.

A lot to unpack here, first it's not just the UK but we're unfortunately the first. Second, yes knives, gardening tools and stuff get confiscated but only when used inappropriately. When compared to America, I think last time I looked London has fewer stabbings per person than New York. We have a tiny number of shootings, so if you're American, shut the hell up.

But most importantly, it won't last. MPs have been told off for watching porn while Parliament is in session. There'll be one or two data leaks and it'll get shuffled under the carpet as "impractical". Plus, they've been playing cat and mouse trying to ban streaming sites for ages. Are they really going to add to that list VPNs which are already hardened against government monitoring from Russia, China, etc? And just "every other site that doesn't follow your rules"?

I'm betting the next big shake up will be when they try to delist GTA from Steam and Rockstar lawyers either nuke everyone or a new and suddenly very popular payment processor is set up and people see a visible example of this not being justifiable or acceptable. Hot Coffee round 2.

To be clear, there's talk of a similar law in a lot of other countries including AMERICA, land of the carrot.

Ehh... While some people can't understand that there's a time && place for everything... && watching porn in a parliament is !appropriate, the things being done to the Internet are abhorrent.

Makes me miss the good old days, when even as a kid, all you had to do to get into a site would be to click 'Yes, I'm over 18'.

Done.

The idea that the gov. needs to 'protect && police' us when it comes to the content we wish to watch is insulting.

As if we're little kids !knowing what we want.

@YourMom spend less time on the internet mate, the UK is nothing like the professional victims of the right want to project it as being, and it's quite tiring having to read it.

We just bang up people who try to burn down occupied hotels, hardly the USSR.

@MM83 this. The Brit subreddits have some talk about banning this stuff cuz it's always from accounts with no activity. It's just trying to be divisive and creating a false impression of concern.

@atheist stabbing death by % of deaths in US: 0.05% UK 0.01%

Both are negligible, frankly.

The strange thing is giving up your access to knives and tools for the 0.01% figure.

@atheist it's quite scary when you see the extent of it. Every day YT seems to recommend to me another "UK News" channel, all of it is AI-slop and it's always pushing a Reform-approved narrative, my old man would think it's legit.

@AlgoRythm I've never been asked to hand anything in to the authorities. What are you referring to?

@MM83 and I've never been in a school shooting. I wasn't asking about your personal experience.

@AlgoRythm ...in which case I'll ask again: what are you referring to?

@MM83

probably this:

https://walesonline.co.uk/news/...

@AlgoRythm I have a 30cm/12inch chef knife in my kitchen. My mother once dropped it, stabbed herself in the leg and needed stitches. I'm allowed it. Walking around outside and brandishing it as a weapon and it would be taken away from me. That's a concession I'm fine with.

@YourMom ah, some isolated misunderstanding in Wales, from that you've decided that we get arrested for having gardening tools as a matter of mandate. Lol.

Mind if I ask where you do your own research?

@atheist it's mad being told what your own country is actually like from people who don't live in it, eh? Here I was, casually cutting a sarnie in two with a bread knife, blissfully unaware that this could land me with a million-year prison sentence.

@MM83 I hear things from a lot of different places. Sometimes its a thing and sometimes not. I avoid the MSM/AP as much as possible. I have found them misrepresenting or flat out lying on numerous occasions. They especially like to omit stuff.

So mostly Telegram, Reddit, Youtube right now. Then I will search around to see if I can find out what is really up. But like I said, I have huge distrust for AP.

@YourMom I'm not sure that any of those will pass master for a dissertation source, and they're all basically mainstream too, but either way.

I'm British, if that's worth anything, I can tell you that you're being fed a different load of shit to the "mainstream" line. We don't live in some Orwellian police state where you get a life sentence just for saying you're English, so long as you're not a dick and/or causing trouble to bystanders, you can basically do what you like.

globalists, globalists everywhere

@MM83 shhh don't do your own research that makes you a racist, extremist according to my PM

@jestdotty so I saw that suicide was a leading cause of death in Canada. I thought that can't be. So I looked i up, assisted suicide is the 5th leading cause of death in Canada in 2024. It is really fucked. Yet people are like that must be fake like I thought originally. I don't know what are the contributing factors to this though.

I think they target isolated people at first

there was that quote

at first they came for X but I wasn't X

anything can be used as a weapon. am I gonna be in a padded room next? no pencils even? my glasses have metal in them and I could break the glass and make it sharp. fuck me. I've scratched people to blood quite badly in the past as well

as for my country, we're known for two-tiered justice system. if you're an immigrant the judge doesn't wanna jeopardize your immigration status so suddenly you didn't just pedophilia a little girl I guess. repeat shenanigans

whereas a Canadian gets arrested for following their own car to a shipping container some Africans were loading to go take back to Africa. ayyo thanks. and our cops making announcements on TV how you should just leave your car keys in your mailbox so the thieves don't break your windows. thanks cops.

I think it makes sense to take these things seriously. if nobody ends up listening, what happens then?

@YourMom a lot of the vaccine injured were told to MAID after their families didn't believe them. it's nice. when I found that out that that was something

@jestdotty your PM is right, everyone who has ever implored anyone to "do your own research" is a bit of a tool, at best.

our state sponsored media is trying to entirely never show anything but state sponsored media on the Internet soon

like random YouTube commentators? can't talk about Canada now

our news is so bad. all of our news stations are state funded. it's obvious enough like half the country wants to defund them. so we get our news off other places for obvious reasons. well they don't like that. so they wanna make it financially untenable, legally "can't make YouTube content because kids bill"??? but it mentions "Canadian content-only" which means "sponsored by the government only", and also they wanna force Canadians to only have access to Canadian news on Facebook and Google and YouTube... and this ofc means just change the algo to it's only state sponsored now. it already mostly works this way but they didn't think about content uploaded from Canadian citizens so they gotta scrub that out with their next laws 😝

fucking iron curtain shit wtf

@MM83 hmmm I think you might be low on critical thinking. never seen you before so I could call you a troll since you're behaving irrationally

at any rate I have sprinkled enough conspiracy theories. I am done for now!

@jestdotty nothing irrational about it, we all know that "doing your own research" means googling your own opinion until you find enough people who agree with it, the notion of primary and secondary sources doesn't really get any more advanced than "my mate down the pub who knows for def" or "my mate down the pub's mate, who also knows for def", but sure, I'm a low-IQ troll, like everyone who disagrees with you on the internet probably is.

I like the BBC. They report on their own failures.

https://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...
https://bbc.co.uk/news/live/...

@atheist bloody mainstream outlets, with their legal obligation to report accurately. The facts can really get in the way of a good yarn.

@MM83 I think the BBC is somewhat unique in it's reporting compared to other mainstream outlets in the UK and other countries (I have limited knowledge of other countries though). My impression of other corrections are usually court ordered.

@atheist AFAIK we have regulators like IPSO and Ofcom, which are basically powerless to actually *stop* any of the bullshit, but can compel any news or press outlet to retract and correct (even if it's 4px font on page 300), and fine them rather paltry sums if they don't behave. It's not much, but it's honest.

The places where these people "do their own research" have no such oversight, but they probably see "the freedom to bullshit idiots like us all day long" as some kind of triumph over the deep state or whatever.

@MM83 I'm still bummed the onion was blocked from buying infowars

@atheist Indeed. We wouldn't want to bring Infowars into disrepute.