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Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in by hnfong on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:22PM (#44714451)
> it's been authoritarian, chauvinistic (both internationally with imperialism and domestically via the aristocracy), and theocratic, ever since Harold Godwinson

This. The UK was a band of feudal kingdoms that somehow managed to create an overseas empire. The empire is now gone, and the feudal kingdom is struggling to transform itself into a modern nation.

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Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in by jahewson on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:06PM (#44714956)
Everywhere was a band of feudal kingdoms. What’s so special about the U.K.?
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Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in by ben_w on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:12PM (#44715029)
Everywhere else transformed, whereas the British elite (in the power sense, not the skill sense) still seem to be proud of their feudal heritage.
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Re:VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in by cryptonector on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:58AM (#44719228)
Everybody has their station in life in the UK. Something like that?
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