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Yeah, it is, but wanna know something? It's the same case in America right now. Like there are OSA style laws right now in US states and The Kids Online Safety Act will bring that federally. The police in the US, be them feds or state or local, are monitoring you and using said information against you. And this isn't anything new, The Patriot Act, passed in the 00s, demands libraries tell the government what books you have been reading, but it gets worse!

You think arresting people for calling for Asylum Seekers to be burnt alive in a tweet is a crime against freedom? (And yes, that is what that tweet said.) How's this for size:

• People being denied entry for being critical of Donald Trump, specifically, or having this meme on their phone.
• The Federal Government wanting to put up Bounties for anyone who supports transgender people or cities straight up putting bounties on transgender people using the shitter, any shitter.
• ICE, which has been turned into a Gestapo force, literally disappearing people based on skin colour and placing them in facilities away from any help with no due process or even notification of where they are, usually denying their Legal IDs are real, and deporting US Citizens to a fucking concentration camp in El Salvador. Often, they will wait in Courtrooms to arrest people for *check notes* obeying the law.
• Government officials demanding that people be fired for not mourning a Conservative Shock Jock and some companies are firing people for pointing out what a horrible man he was, including people making a list of people who didn't mourn him hard enough. You know, the man who's last words were him being a racist fuck!
• The government demanding you give five years of Social Media posts to enter the fucking country.
• The US government are straight up arresting people for opposing misinformation.
• There is a bill in the works that will declare transgender people as inherently pornographic, meaning transgender people could be arrested for "obscenity".

The US already has one of the biggest surveillance states out there, you can't even read shit from the library without the government monitoring you, and they are using that to actively fuck over people. An American calling Britain a surveillance Hellscape is like a North Korean calling China an Authoritarian Nightmare.

But you know what, you're right, the UK is fucked, but let the people who live here tell you how it's fucked, not some clickbait articles:

• The Government openly and straight up hates me and others like me. I'm seeing my rights stripped away because of my trans status and hate groups are suing organisations and companies to force them to ban people like me from being in any way involved with them. The other two parties who seem likely to be the next Government, also hate me, openly.
• Section 28 is coming back for transgender people.
• You can be arrested for the words "Palestine Action", because they were declared a Proscribed group. Meanwhile, Reform UK, who look set to be in government next, openly want to give money to the Taliban as government policy, which, by the way, is illegal for them to even say, and we have fucking Fascists marching through the streets, being protected by police!
• One of our former Prime Minister basically killed a city's worth of people in his own country so his friends could make money.
• Leaving the EU has been a clusterfuck and as fucked everything from the Economy to culture, and even suggesting we should mayhaps work with Europe on things is met with the same reaction as suggesting we legalise murder by the right.
• Anti-terror legislation is being used for bin disputes.
• The King's Brother is a Nonce, we know the government knew because of the Epstein files, and despite this, he's not in prison, just under House arrest in Sandringham.
• The government wants to ban VPNs after just learning they fucking exist, so they have a guy who knows fuck all about tech to try figure out how to do it because they want to ~~gather up more personal data for their friends~~ stop 16 year olds from ~~learning about Operation Legacy~~ seeing tiddies.
• The OSA could lead to Wikipedia being age gated.
• And we can't figure out that destabilising countries leads to refugee crisises, generally, as a nation, we somehow haven't made that obvious link yet.

But despite all that, despite all this, I can still do something that Americans cannot do: I can say the following without being arrested or being put on a list like:

The Prime Minister is a square headed Transphobic twat, Donald Trump is a fucking Pedophile who lusted over his own daughter and walked into changing rooms full of underage girls, Charlie Kirk was a horrible human being and him being shot through the neck made me dance around the living room. Transgender rights are human rights and transgender people are not obscene and are people who deserve rights, freedoms and liberties like the rest of us. Gender is not solely dictated by your genitals or Chromosomes, and here's an AI Generated Image of JD Vance I made where he's holding a Lolipop, wearing a propeller hat, and is running in terror from Thomas the Fucking Tank Engine.