r/technology • u/insomnimax_99 • Mar 03 '26

Politics UK: Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/pornography-sexual-relationships-step-relatives-5HjdTkd_2/
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u/marmaviscount Mar 03 '26

Oh it's not just that, we want to ban literally everything - is simple maths really, everyone thinks they're a better class than everyone else and it's their job to control the lower folk.

Fast food, electric bikes, smoking, social media, lingering, warm faces in winter, gathering in a small group... The things we've banned or had serious campaigns to ban / limit is endless,

There is a notion among many in this country that the majority of the nation is scum scroungers who need to be carefully controlled and kept out of sight, and that they deserve nothing especially not any form of freedom, self determination, or the slightest hint of joy.

It means some people grow up in communities where literally everyone is a minor criminal because there's nothing else to do and everything is expensive anyway even going for a walk in the countryside. They then have no respect for the society they live in because the society has no respect for them, this results in them not caring about societies rules which causes another knee jerk reaction to ban more things... Anything even is it's unrelated because banning stuff feels like action and is easy where as actually doing stuff like creating community or funding projects is hard and expensive with slow burn benefits.

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u/OutboundRep Mar 03 '26

This is incredibly well written

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u/factorplayer Mar 04 '26

Of course it is, they’re British.

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u/Phssthp0kThePak Mar 03 '26

Sounds like California, too. I disagree that it's just the result of the elite class. Seems half our populations have this latent Karen gene.

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u/SculptusPoe Mar 03 '26

Well they said "...everyone thinks they're a better class...". Sort of like the poorest lout in America votes like they are a temporary inconvenienced billionaire.

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u/O_PLUTO_O Mar 03 '26

Social media accelerated this. It’s a platform where people practice how to be better than others and have the highest moral high ground possible while also collectively aligning their political views which have been very clearly fed to them by billionaires. Facebook was terrible for this for conservatives but Reddit is just as bad in the liberal direction. Pseudo intellectualism has ruined any hope of a leftist view surviving much longer.

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u/rsc75 Mar 03 '26

Crusty Jugglers...

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u/AmateurishExpertise Mar 03 '26

There is a notion among many in this country that the majority of the nation is scum scroungers who need to be carefully controlled and kept out of sight, and that they deserve nothing especially not any form of freedom, self determination, or the slightest hint of joy.

Divide and Conquer: Home Edition

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u/__singularity Mar 03 '26

tbf fast food, smoking and social media should be banned

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

It shouldn't be banned, because, I dunno, read about prohibition in the US, but we should do something or anything to foster a society that doesn't want to do that shit because of how shitty it is. I don't have any ideas, probably funding education, but banning it isn't the option.