Re:Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according ...
by Glittergorp on Friday June 06, 2025 @07:59AM
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> I explicitly said that the UK wasn't free of issues: my pointing out the US was worse wasn't defending our own, simply making the point that some Americans tend to massively exaggerate the UK's issues while pretending the US doesn't have any.
I and others are perfectly aware that the US is no paradise. However the UK is much worse than the US.
> Average people from the UK are going to assume that any pushback on speech controls is nutters if the message comes with absurd exaggerations and outright lies. There are legitimate cases of overreach from our legal system, but too often the focus is on someone actively calling for violence, and those are not the same.
The average person in the UK probably isn't even aware there are speech controls and probably would support them. Free speech is something that the British public don't value.
The British Government BTW has a long history of suppressing speech, lying to its own citizens, locking up people that they didn't like. They can always find a reason to do it as there are any number of laws you are in violation in without you even being aware of it.
What you are doing is called "whataboutism".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I and others are perfectly aware that the US is no paradise. However the UK is much worse than the US.
> Average people from the UK are going to assume that any pushback on speech controls is nutters if the message comes with absurd exaggerations and outright lies. There are legitimate cases of overreach from our legal system, but too often the focus is on someone actively calling for violence, and those are not the same.
The average person in the UK probably isn't even aware there are speech controls and probably would support them. Free speech is something that the British public don't value.
The British Government BTW has a long history of suppressing speech, lying to its own citizens, locking up people that they didn't like. They can always find a reason to do it as there are any number of laws you are in violation in without you even being aware of it.