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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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youngNed
111 days ago
Approval for advertisments has been in place since 1961.
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petcat
111 days ago
I had no idea it was this blatant though. We can even see it being justified in replies to
this very thread
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youngNed
111 days ago
what very thread
would you rather we justified it in?
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petcat
111 days ago
I'm just surprised to see it being so passionately defended amongst this technical audience. That's all
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youngNed
111 days ago
Can i ask: Why do you think its been banned?
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vintermann
111 days ago
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.
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anthk
111 days ago
Not unlike the US with... nudity, curse words, owning a social media account and being BigBrothered in the airport, the Epstein files themselves...
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