From age and ID restrictions on the Internet, to charging rappers with “terrorism,” the U.K. is demolishing the most basic civil liberties. If we let them, U.S. leaders may be close behind.

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    3 days ago

    “and america could be next!” they literally have domestic concentration camps in america there is no freedom there

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      1 day ago

      Our speech has been controlled here since media’s inception. We just live in the world of manufactured perception that because we can argue on the internet or have marches that somehow speech and propaganda isn’t a tightly-controlled system.

      You don’t NEED to jail critics to have control over your country’s speech, you just need to control the narratives via news outlets, reddit posts, newspapers, facebook “friends” and popular television fiction shows.

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      2 days ago

      But how nice of the headline to imply such things don’t exist while pretending to be shocked about other things