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He was also wearing a wearing a poppy pin badge, I don't understand how it's against health and safety, especially when the staff wear name badges, even the butchers.
 
Mutsumi said:
Don't judge them all by that one thing.
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Obviously this is true of any given group of people, but when those in charge are shown to be that corrupt it barely matters how their subordinates behave. The good people are still dancing to their leaders' deceitful tune whether they realise that or not.

I'm of the opinion now that society as a whole as well as individual organisations basically require a decapitation strike in order to return them to a less corrupt state. The people at the top are all just so complacent they think they can get away with anything. What's worse is that people let them, believing in lofty sentiments like "justice will be done" when that's clearly ******** because the people with the power are the same people who write and enforce the laws. They're obviously not going to use them to their own detriment. These people don't just think they're above the law, they are above the law.
 
I know people have been quite interested in this subject in the past, and the BBC have just put up some experiences of Western Hikikomori.

A lot of the stories are very sad, but perfectly understandable and a pretty savage indictment of present day society.
 
So they can finally carve FREEDOM IS SLAVERY into the side of the Home Office. You now have to let the government know you're viewing pornography so they can keep tabs on you, and it's all to protect the children, don't you see? Just like the curbs on your other civil liberties are to keep you safe from the nasty terrorists. How could you possibly disagree with that...

So that's it, the final nail in the coffin of privacy. We are a totalitarian state. You are no longer free from the government's watchful eyes even in the privacy of your own home. I have half a mind to sell everything I own over the next couple of months and just pack up and leave for some undisclosed location.
 
It begins. Once you start here, what's to stop the government from extending it to other things like politically sensitive material? Slamming it directly into child sexual abuse to make it a moral panic, announcing it on the day of the royal baby to bury the news, I feel sick.
 
Ath said:
I feel sick.
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I think that's quite the appropriate reaction.

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Deeply disturbing stuff, and the obvious problem with whatever they arbitrarily class as 'porn' aside, isn't this going to be a big nuisance?

"New laws so videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions as those sold in shops"

If online streaming services are going to be forced to have to BBFC everything for the UK, I can only see it going one way for us in the long run.

I have absolutely no wish to see images of child abuse, but they're combining so many different things and tarring them all with the same brush; it is bound to be a disaster.

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Almost willing to accept the new measures happily if the Mail's site is correctly flagged up as "web sleaze" too.

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I'm sorry, but the best thing to come out of that picture Ayase posted is the fact you have the whole "kick sleaze out" as the topic, but...
LOOK ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE!!!

It's not as sleazy as porn, but there is a lot of sexualizing just waiting for the attention of people, old and young. And then there's the bottom one, which is talking about the young looking older - which is another age-related issue more focused on if we can tell who's what and bringing up questions on enforcing things...
Is this just another governmental half-hazzard ploy to get us to believe they are doing something revolutionary and ingenious to stop child abuse dead? Nothing they do actually sticks. And if it does, it lets a lot of things go or is edited to hell.

This whole broadcast is totally bogus and I can't wait to laugh my face off at it.
 
It is all quite disturbing, quite disturbing indeed. Probably the first time I have felt something along the lines of ayase's "up and leave the country before it's too late" reaction.
 
I haven't really read into the topic, but if it's as easy as simply "opting out" in order to retain the P privileges,as that hilarious Daily Mail screenshot seems to suggest, is it really such a problem? I mean, I get it that it would be kind of embarrassing to have to go on record as an opter outer, but then again, part of me thinks, **** it, why not just be open about it if you use it?
 
Embarrassing is hardly the issue. Having to put your name on a govt. register of deviants just in case they decide that something that you want to access on the internet is "pornographic" is on another level of the government taking away liberties than "embarrassing". I think your misuse of the word "privilege" is telling. Think harder about Ath's point relating to if this was "politically sensitive material" rather than "pornographic material".
 
But surely that's the way thing's are going to go sooner or later. Don't me wrong, I don't praise the move or anything, but I think a lose of privacy is probably inevitable, even though I'm not really fully comfortable with the idea either. So, part of me think it's a waste of time getting all John Twelve Hawks and stuff. Being able to be comfortable with all your stuff "out there" so to speak, may be the only real solution.
 
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