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> proven to be dangerous to others if they access the internet.

What exactly would this entail? Some people nowadays seem to have a very broad conception of "safety", broad enough to cause serious concern on the part of advocates for freedom and privacy.

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It will invariably be reduced to "saying mean things on the internet" by the government. I do not understand why people are so willing to give governments an ever-increasing amount of power. People never learn from history.

From the UK: Seems to me that very few people except those with very direct interests, support the Keir Starmer Government and his Finance Minister - Reeves who is universally regarded as a disaster (armed with an Oxford PPE degree & yet driving businesses down and out in the UK). My point: 'so willing to give ... power' ? We have three more years of this administration and meanwhile seem unable to do anything to prevent them creating the Britain of their fantasies.

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