The U.K., racing as fast as it can to become a police state, wages an escalating war on freedom of expression. Latest:
Reminder -- this is a supposedly left-leaning government, but Labour has been an enemy of civil liberties for a long time now.
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@dangillmor yeah, and yet again the censorship is under the guise of “protecting kids’ safety” (they think kids are too stupid to know how to download a VPN but are also smart enough to vote)
@dangillmor Something that caught my eye about that article was the use of "barely legal" to imply it's not legal. In my book, though, "barely legal" just means "legal."
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I'm baffled by the (lack of) logic and hypocrisy behind trying to make it illegal for young models to portray school girls.
The only basis for that is to assert it is illegal for media to portray fictional performances of illegal behavior.
Police procedural shows would all be out the window in an instant: they have actors portraying all sorts of crimes most frequently murder.
Actors cannot be charged for fictional crimes that they portray on film. This should be obvious.
@dangillmor “barely legal content”, also known as “legal content”
@dangillmor the conservative wolf in labour sheep's clothing doing everything as instructed by his puppet masters so that felon's buddy fascist Nigel to take over next election and join felon to form the new Axis.. Too far fetched? Don't think so.
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Silly at best.
Silly at best.
@dangillmor compared to what we see on the right, both in the UK and the US, the left (including Labour) is far more pro- freedom of expression. Sure, it opposes racism and porn-to-children. But that hardly makes it a paragon of repression. The right still owns that.
@dangillmor That’ll be Labour, who enshrined the European Human Rights Act, passed the race and sex equality acts, introduced equal marriage rights and Surestart?? They don’t get everything right but it’s obvious right wing bating to suggest they’re “anti civil rights”.
@dangillmor Oh won't someone please think of the adults dressed as children. I'm looking at you Angus Young and Wee Jimmy Crankee
@dangillmor On the political compass you have both an authoritarian left (Labour) and a libertarian left (Greens). They are not the same.
@dangillmor I just like how we continue to legislate based on what we saw on the TV.
@dangillmor Labour has *always* had a paternalist, authoritarian streak—since at least the 1920s, if not earlier. Ostensibly a party of the working class, but led by middle class bien-pensant managers who assume it's their job to provide moral guidance to the under-educated. Meddlesome by inclination. And Starmer is basically a Tory in Labour drag.
@cstross @dangillmor Many socialist/ communist states and parties have a "we know best" anti free speech at the core. From Russia and China downwards. Never did see what Corbyn's views were.
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Judging from who votes for Fascists these days, it seems that the under-educated actually do need guidance.
@mrundkvist @cstross @dangillmor
Perhaps they just need a good alternative instead of just a lesser evil.
Perhaps they just need a good alternative instead of just a lesser evil.
@mrundkvist @dangillmor Maybe, but they don't need guidance from tossers like Starmer who think the way to defeat the right is to outflank them *on* the right.
@cstross @dangillmor
I can't tell whether Starmer is lame-ducking #labour policies because of a weak parliamentary position.
@mrundkvist @dangillmor Nope, Starmer has ALWAYS been a petty authoritarian shit and a paternalist. Started as a campaigning human rights lawyer but by 2011 he was the Director of Public Prosecutions who ruthlessly threw the book at protestors accused of looting that summer. He trims his sails to suit the prevailing wind, is all.
His current government had a landslide-scale majority—but it was a landslide against the Tories, not for Labour's Tory Lite. Which is why Reform are now polling high.
@cstross @dangillmor
Thank you. This makes me wonder what it is about the #Labour party's *membership* that made Starmer their elected leader.
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@mrundkvist @dangillmor Did you notice the New Labour (rw) faction deliberately losing the 2019 election then purging the party of Corbynites—overwhelmingly young and enthusiastic leftists—to leave a rump of lobbyist fodder and apparatchiks (who'd found a home under Blair and hated the left with a passion)?
Corbyn saw a post-1945 high tide in party membership: it's fallen by 75% since then. And his new party with Sultana has exceeded that mass membership.
@cstross @dangillmor
So Starmer then actually does a fair job of representing the few party members he still has.
I left Swedish #Labour for the Former Commies two years ago. Because the party is trying to get under-educated male voters in small towns back from the Fascists by means of brownish communication.
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