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Comment by hermannj314 | Hacker News Reader

Nice. I am tired of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling content. I am glad to see encouraging people to self-harm with these products is now banned.

Oh wait...self-harm just includes suicide. I guess it is still fine to comvince people to destroy their lives as long as it has a revenue curve behind it.

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The Labour party - well, both parties - has got a lot of money from gambling companies over the years. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24624306.labour-took-1m-do...

It's performative, distractionary grand standing. Dealing with the symptoms, not the causes.

It's more than that.. Its a white night trogon horse designed to consolidate power and oppress the people.

Yeah, communism is slavery. We seem to need to relearn this periodically.

Hey let's not forget sugar, cars and kitchen stairs.

"I think your foyer staircase would be more aesthetic wthhout a handrail" is the new "unalive yourself"

It is a long con, but the expected value of self-harm is still positive and it is legally protected speech in the UK.

What? Telling people to kill themselves is definitely not in the legally protected range?

I am sure you can still encourage people to commit probabilistic self-harm in the UK.

You can't tell someone to kill thelselves but you show alcohol ads to an alcoholic or encourage someone to modify their staircase to increase risk of fall death.

My point is this law is a stupidly narrow definition of self-harm.

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