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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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Apreche ◴[24 Aug 25 17:53 UTC] No.45006225[source]▶
If they do it, I never want to hear any criticism of the great firewall of China from them ever again.
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xenotux ◴[25 Aug 25 02:33 UTC] No.45009653[source]▶
The main difference between democracies and secular autocracies isn't that they have a vastly different approach to run-of-the-mill moral vices, such as prostitution or porn. It's that democracies tolerate a much wider spectrum of political opinions in public discourse and don't kill or imprison people who try to start an opposition party.

I think we can agree that the UK is moving in the wrong direction without drawing parallels to a place where dissidents are disappeared, both off the internet and in real life.

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tacticus ◴[25 Aug 25 04:17 UTC] No.45010154[source]▶
Anti olympic posters got police raids. Plasticine action on your tshirt got arrests.
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1. Guthur ◴[25 Aug 25 05:09 UTC] No.45010413[source]▶
What so especially ironic is the posters views comes from the narrative control the UK is so disparate to get control of.

Any notion that the UK is actually run by the people is nonsensical, the so called democracy is pure and utter theatre.