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We know that the UK is a poster child for a nanny state controlling everything they can think of, but this one takes the cake. Is nothing in the UK sacred? Is there any freedom left in the UK??????
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Continuing on its recent censorship-happy path, the U.K. government amended regulations this week to prohibit online porn from depicting a variety of erotic activities. Now-illicit acts range from the very specific (female ejaculation; "spanking, caning, and whipping beyond a gentle level") to the incredibly broad ("verbal abuse"). But basically, the U.K. has banned BDSM and certain forms of fetish porn—or at least, charging money for that sort of porn.
Meanwhile the Europeon Union (led by the UK and Germany) has been inflicting massive economic pain on their member states through relentless austerity...
The frightening part of it is that there are numerous people in The US--from both sides of the political spectrum--who are prepared to do the same thing here should they ever determine that the cultural barometer would predict success.
The frightening part of it is that there are numerous people in The US--from both sides of the political spectrum--who are prepared to do the same thing here should they ever determine that the cultural barometer would predict success.
Not at all.
Those evil nanny-state libruls you speak of... they are the ones trying to keep the government out of a woman's vagina or a gay person's bedroom.
My sympathies, these porn restrictions must be devastating for you.
I'm not in the UK. But it is devastating to everyone who values freedom. A state powerful enough to restrict porn is powerful enough to restrict anything it chooses.
Those evil nanny-state libruls you speak of... they are the ones trying to keep the government out of a woman's vagina or a gay person's bedroom.
I don't speak only of "liberals". The biggest mistake anyone who cares about freedom can possibly make, is to think that the threats to that freedom come only from the political left or the political right.
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