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

If they do it, I never want to hear any criticism of the great firewall of China from them ever again.

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.