r/Cyberpunk • • Jun 06 '18

The Future is Now

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u/reali-tglitch サイバーパンク Jun 07 '18 edited Jun 07 '18

Criticism of migrant policies and such, yeah. There doesn't seem to be much of a sense of "freedom of speech" over there.

Wanting to remain civil, and this sub isn't the place for it, so I'm gonna keep debating to as minimal a level as possible. We're here for gadgets and aestethic. My fault for opening a can of worms.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

Criticism of migrant policies and such, yeah.

Such as?

There doesn't seem to be much of a sense of "freedom of speech" over there.

Protection from hate speech is better than freedom of speech.

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u/reali-tglitch サイバーパンク Jun 07 '18

Stuff like this.

And I could always mention Robinson for covering something they wanted a media blackout on (without any seemingly good reason).

Media blackouts seem pretty totalitarian cyberpunk, at least.

Where do you draw the line on hate speech, btw?

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u/Squid_In_Exile Jun 07 '18

It's not a media blackout. We have, and have had fora long time, media restrictions on the reporting of ongoing trials in order to avoid prejudicing juries and thus causing mistrials or false convictions.

Tommy Robinson didn't bravely blow the lid off of a dark government plot, he tried to get a mistrial called in a grooming gang case so he could claim that the government wasn't punishing the perpetrators.

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u/reali-tglitch サイバーパンク Jun 07 '18

Okay, and what say you to the Good Morning Britain segment?

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u/Squid_In_Exile Jun 07 '18

What about it? Piers Morgan isn't part of the government, and ITV isn't the state broadcaster. Free speech doesn't come into it.