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.

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The idea that America EVER had free fucking speech is propaganda. There is no such thing, not in the US and not anywhere. Nations have to control their propaganda or they lose their power. Want an example? Just log into your favorite feed-site in another country and look how radically different every post, every comment and every news story is. Our perspective in the US is as cultivated as it is anywhere else.

    The only way we would ever have truly free speech in any capacity would be if we had a borderless world, and I don’t see that happening as long as we have money and classes.

    Short of some alien species descending and absorbing everyone into a hive-mind, this isn’t going to change for a thousand years at least.