[tokyobreakfast]

The US CBP routinely intercepts "dangerous" products. I assume the Brits have the same.

It's a wonder why AliExpress flies under the radar. I assume it's impossible to keep up with it all.

The UK's comically over-engineered electrics are no match for some of these plug-in-and-die sketchy USB chargers from the Far East.

DiodesGoneWild on YouTube does teardowns of many of these incredibly poorly constructed deathtraps.

[strideashort]

And by extension, the UK is free to implement His Majesty’s Greatest Firewall of the UK should they wish to control what is imported.

[mosura]

This whole episode is a charade to do exactly that while claiming they are morally superior to China because the UK does it “for the children” while China does it because they are just evil authoritarians.

For Tiananmen Square substitute Rape Gangs.

[cs02rm0]

I don't know why this is being downvoted.

It's depressingly true; it seems the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall, they've been looking to control VPN use [1] and the top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up of children being sexually abused. [2]

[1] https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/uk-govern...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzy0y20qlo

[dgroshev]

> the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall

> top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up

Do you not see a tiny little bit of contradiction here (regardless of your mis-characterisation of the second link)

[hunterpayne]

No, I think it is you who is confused. The GP's point is that the BBC article isn't accurate or honest. You seem to have assumed the information in the link was accurate when the proof the GP implied was that the link isn't accurate.

[ge96]

I remember I bought some pills online one time (neutroopics type) they came from like India and were intercepted by customs/I got a letter. It's funny my roommate at the time bought em and didn't get intercepted so was odd.

In hindsight it is dumb to buy random pills and take em.

[refulgentis]

Commenting on Europe has gotten really lax the last year or so. People kinda will just say whatever pops into their head and it’s some drive-by claim that they haven’t thought about for a second past it popping into their head, presumably because it’s become normalized. (i.e. “but everyone knows Europe goes too far”)

Sometimes it self resolves - as you contributed here, yes, countries limit and interfere and fine other countries businesses, all the time!

I don’t know what yours means though. What electrics are made in the UK? How are they over engineered?

[wizzwizz4]

I think they mean the fact that UK plug sockets are earthed, and contain a mechanism that prevents you from shorting live and neutral with a bent fork, even though those safety mechanisms are rarely the last line of defence (hence "over-engineered"… you can probably tell that I disagree with that assessment).