do people have any more freedoms left in UK?
But I can sort of see how people would form this opinion of life in the UK based on internet hyperbole.
We also have the freedom of health care for all. You know, we look after each other so people don't die so much.
I'm happy for you that you have more freedom to drink beer. May I kindly suggest that, when exercising that freedom, you try and avoid nationalistic flame wars? This is Hacker News.
Unfortunately they keep coming.
Plus, the OP comment of "Does the UK have any freedoms left" is obviously quite ridiculous.
The OP's comment was clearly a flame of precisely that sort. It wasn't making any constructive commentary on civil liberties issues, just asking a dumb and inflammatory rhetorical question.
I suggest that the only reason you find the OP less offensive than the reply is that you're American and not British. If our internet laws are fair game for criticism, I think your (crazy) alcohol laws and health system must be too :)
Also, what makes you so sure that civil liberties have been "declining" in the UK? There have been steps forward as well as steps back, I don't see any justification for overall pessimism.
The OP wasn't a good comment either, but the response was even worse, which is another way of saying "internet flamewars escalate".
>especially when you're doing it in a dishonest attempt to make British law seem better.
I don't think he was trying to make British copyright law seem better; at least, I didn't read that into the post.
But on a wider scale, they are both also some of the most successful and free countries that have ever existed, and clearly have better human rights records than, for example, Northn Korea, Sudan or Zimbabwe.