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A comment on Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations. Parent comment

Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by Henchman21 on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:26PM (#44866110)
That’s because the bedrock principle on which modern government is based is…

drum roll

Lie whenever it’s convenient because the public are children anyway and won’t or can’t understand.

Through this lens many things make more sense. They’re comfortable with lying because there are zero repercussions for lying.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by GLdRH on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:45PM (#44868619)
They are not only children, but also goldfish who forget everything after 5 minutes
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by dboreham on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:51PM (#44870805)
tbf it took from 1939 until about 5 years ago for people to forget that fascism is a bad idea.
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by GLdRH on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:51AM (#44873171)
Let me tell you as a german: that's not what fascism looks like. Get your TDS under control.
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by BlueTemplar on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:10AM (#44901348)
There were much milder examples of fascism than Nazism. And Trump 2 (if that refers to this) is not even a year old.
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by tjwebbnorfolk on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:27AM (#44922696)
This comment is proof that too many people think that fascism is just a political brand for anyone you don't like.
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by account42 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:42AM (#44874997)
They don't forget, they get told what to believe - amongst other things by the government-controlled news.
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by tjwebbnorfolk on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:26AM (#44922683)
s/they/we
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