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But just a month ago everyone in the discussion about freedom.gov was saying that Europe doesn't restrict internet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

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Well, UK is just one small part of Europe. You probably also confuse Europe and the EU.

Oh, no, not that Europe. You were of course talking about the Europe with Spain (oh wait, La Liga has a cloudflare kill switch). You were of course talking about the Europe with Italy (oh wait, the Piracy Shield). You were of course talking about the Europe with Turkyie (oh wait, ...

Ok go on finish your sentence.

I shouldn't need to - if it doesn't foundationally offend you that Spain has endorsed a private entity with the ability to routinely turn off part of the Internet for their own private convenience then fundamentally we have a different view about how this whole thing should work.

"Oh wait, I cannot download porn, stolen software, and stolen media". Censorship! /s

That definitionally is censorship, whether you think its effects are just or not.

but now the definition of europe becomes europe but not UK, since it's convenient to maintain the argument rather than discuss the real underlying issue!

Shrodinger's continent. You don't know what it contains until you know what policy position you need to argue for/against.

Big exaggeration. Opened the link and with the dozen comments or so that I've seen there is no rhetoric of the kind your asserting.

We know from France, UK, Spain, Italy that censorship is ramping up rather than down.

Still not a good enough excuse for freedom.gov when the current US agenda is to support the right wing organizations in Europe.

Out of curiosity, do you expect that freedom.gov will contain socialist, communist, extreme left-wing or islamist point of views?

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