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Orly? You don't say.
The sooner UK PLC gets this into their thick, ideological skulls the better. ๐
The Government of a country with a centuries-old traditition of keeping the plebes under control and who are currently licking the arse of the modern day version of the NAZIs will never accept that there are technical limitations for their project of detecting and suppressing in the cradle any realistic organised forces for change.
Literally the only time in the last 3 centuries that Britain moved away from the mindset that the upper classes should control the rest was after over a million working class Britons with military training came back from WWII, and by the 80s they were already walking back on the achievements of that period.
If you'd seen the original statement in Russian, you'd realize this person has no idea what they are talking about at all, and with their job title, the purpose of it is just to present some kinda more liberal viewpoint for appearance.
And yes, it's possible, Iran and North Korea are doing it, and there are plenty of countries with heavy censorship and regulation, and there's a piece of good engineering advice I once got - "you get to your goal faster if you don't pick up boss fights", meaning that while it's cool for a commenter on the Web to imagine them taking the hardest and most expensive path to solving the problem of censorship and control, they have different choices.
And Utah.
If anything is impossible, it's Utah having any sense. They started out as a cult, and they still follow it