Depends who you compare to. Australia is the only advanced economy who’s laws are even more draconian. USA is a close third.

It’s to the point where I (non-sarcastically) feel safer travelling with my data over a Russia border than I do the UK/USA/AUS border.

Since anecdotally my girlfriends family live in Russia and I like to visit the US (and my homeland, the UK) so I cross those borders often.

Well it is pretty nice place maybe compared to other countries like China, Iran and North Korea. UK jails people for making jokes, singing rap lyrics. Your government wants to ban porn and demand encryption has backdoors, sensorship of the internet is just par for the course. It is completely insane.

please, UK is a special - Cambridge Analytica‘s success to manipulate the Brexit vote - the video surveillance of public spaces - this porn debacle