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Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by Veen » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 7:09 AM UTC

sfe22 wrote: post #123

Gordonjcp wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UK isn't the US. The UK government does not work like or even resemble the US government.

Looks the same setup as the US. Courts are part of the government https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/our-justice-sys...

Here’s the relevant part to this thread from the page you linked:

“The justice system is one of the three branches of the state. The other two branches are the executive, or the government, and the legislature, which is the two Houses of Parliament”

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by greatgib » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 12:44 PM UTC

As we can see with Assange case, I think that the core of political leaders there are corrupted by lobbyist, like for Australia.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by Nextgrid » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 6:49 PM UTC

LatteLazy wrote: post #46

I once again find myself apologizing for my country and trying to explain that in 20 years our (very severe) boomer infestation will be fixed and we'll be a real place again. Sorry.

Assuming there's anything left of the country and it doesn't devolve into a lawless wasteland once basic infrastructure like healthcare, law enforcement, education, transport, etc has collapsed.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by bzzzt » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #88

timeon wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still do not get why people buy those sad pale tomatoes in winter.

I've never seen a "sad pale tomato", regardless of the season.

The dutch greenhouse tomatoes were so sad and pale in the 90s our eastern neighbours called them 'holländische Wasserbombe' (dutch waterbombs). They're better nowadays. As it turns out it's more profitable to plant tomatoes people actually want to eat...

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by upwardbound » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 3:09 AM UTC

desro wrote: post #14

upwardbound wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I'm (non-confrontationally) curious if you fact checked this before posting, or if it was a quick copy and paste. Truly: just curious.

To elaborate on what I said earlier, I should said that I *failed* in a naive attempt to fact check before being foiled by my lack of knowledge of the UK system of power.

What does it mean "to hold power"? Google didn't have any simple answers about who "held power" in which year and neither did wikipedia. How am I supposed to find these answers if I wasn't taught them in history class like you were? I'm sorry I gave up but I have limited mental energy to slack off on a forum and a ton of work to do. I visited at least 3 wikipedia articles and felt like I had no more than 25% of the information I needed to even answer this question. And so ChatGPT tempted me with a quick promise of an answer..