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by VWWHFSfQ 111 days ago
Broad censorship has largely become normalized in the UK and EU. It's happening fast and it's terrifying.
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Approval for advertisments has been in place since 1961.
I had no idea it was this blatant though. We can even see it being justified in replies to this very thread.
what very thread would you rather we justified it in?
I'm just surprised to see it being so passionately defended amongst this technical audience. That's all
Can i ask: Why do you think its been banned?
Mullvad says it is, they're more credible than Ofcom or Ofcom's fans. The trick of strong-arming all providers of a certain medium to "self"-censor in order to implement advance censorship is an old trick.
Not unlike the US with... nudity, curse words, owning a social media account and being BigBrothered in the airport, the Epstein files themselves...