Comment by virtuabhi | Hacker News Reader

Comment by virtuabhi | Hacker News Reader

UK is just getting worse for internet freedom each year. The country has already curtailed free speech with its libel laws [1,2], internet censorship [3], and newspaper targeting [4].

I wonder if people of UK are like frog in boiling water? Do they not realize that their rights are being removed with each passing law? I hope at least tech companies will move out of UK, prompting the UK government to ponder over its actions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Associatio...

[2] No one can make fun of Her Royal Majesty, and UK prime minister was on the parade showing solidarity with dead French satirists

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...

[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-targets-g...

Friedrich Goltz's boiling frog experiment with the slow temperature increase to boiling only worked after he removed the brains of the frogs - all others actually jumped out above 25C+ - when you watch various UK TV shows one can certainly assume that at least some of the actors / watchers must have had their brains removed to be able to endure this. I'm not sure if that applies to the majority of the population (yet) ;-)

> I'm not sure if that applies to the majority of the population (yet)

Are we living in the same country?

[2] You saying no-one makes fun of Liz? Our libel laws are hideous, but making fun of the queen or other royals is something that regularly occurs in UK media. And given the UK royals, to ban taking the piss out of them would be blatant entrapment.

They definitely try to http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ojgrkt/uncensored---the-we...

I agree that trying to restrict footage of a wedding to non-comedic purposes is not very liberal, but that is hardly the same as not being allowed to make fun of the queen. The Queen is mocked as part of the state opening of parliament, for instance, so it would be very hard to ban.

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