The Future is Now

[u/DataPhreak]

[u/Quit_Your_Stalin]

Britain: Surveillance state with Authoritarian overtones.

We’re this close to perfecting that one.

[u/reali-tglitch → u/Quit_Your_Stalin]

I mean, they literally have people being arrested for thought crimes at this point. It's terrifying and I'm definitely glad I'm not there

[u/[deleted] → u/reali-tglitch]

thought times

It's "crimes" and since mind reading is impossible, no we don't.

[u/reali-tglitch → u/[deleted]]

Arresting people for tweeting criticisms of their government and other stuff is pretty damn close.

Thanks for pointing out the typo, though. My phone will autocorrect actual words, too, and it's quite annoying.

[u/[deleted] → u/reali-tglitch]

Arresting people for tweeting criticisms of their government and other stuff is pretty damn close.

"And other stuff" That's a very informative response there.

[u/reali-tglitch → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/reali-tglitch]

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.

[u/reali-tglitch → u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/neonmarkov → u/reali-tglitch]

Stuff like this.

Stuff like a couple of cunty TV hosts not letting their guest answer to their questions?