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And by extension, the UK is free to implement His Majesty’s Greatest Firewall of the UK should they wish to control what is imported.

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This whole episode is a charade to do exactly that while claiming they are morally superior to China because the UK does it “for the children” while China does it because they are just evil authoritarians.

For Tiananmen Square substitute Rape Gangs.

I don't know why this is being downvoted.

It's depressingly true; it seems the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall, they've been looking to control VPN use [1] and the top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up of children being sexually abused. [2]

[1] https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/uk-govern...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzy0y20qlo

> the UK really heading quickly towards a Great Firewall

> top most read article on BBC News right now is yet another public sector cover up

Do you not see a tiny little bit of contradiction here (regardless of your mis-characterisation of the second link)

No, I think it is you who is confused. The GP's point is that the BBC article isn't accurate or honest. You seem to have assumed the information in the link was accurate when the proof the GP implied was that the link isn't accurate.

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