Thank God we’ve got the government here to protect us.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Can't let the children have access to an Encyclopedia. Too dangerous. We have ChatGPT to give them all the information they need.
They might look up adult content like "balls" or "boobs"
I remember doing that with a regular dictionary in middle school english class
edit: Yes I was scarred for life. Wish the government had intervened.
I did the same and look at me now. Let this be a warning to all you youngsters.
heck I can still remember the way to the shelf in my local library that contained a nat geo book on various tribes that, of course, contained boobs.
I can’t believe they let you see pictures of other naked humans as a small human!! What a failure of federal government
right?!
We had those in elementary school, along with corpses and a decapitated rhino. Maybe that explains Gen X.
They should just block UK traffic like the porn sites do. This is an excellent way to lose a resource the government regularly uses.
Bold of you to assume the govt won’t just use the same VPNs they’ll ban the proles from having.
yeah pretty much the way it's always been. Rules for thee but not for me
Bold of you to assume the people advocating for this know how to use a VPN.
To download Wikipedia to your computer for offline use, see here: https://kiwix.org/en/
Unfortunately, it's an older version from 2024. Last I heard there were some issues with the software used to create these.
Also the images are lower resolution.
Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don't have access to unfederated information and educational outlets?
The adults of next generation!
Fuck this new world order.
They're gonna lose next election harder than Tories and I'm not even going to feel sorry for them.
It'll fuck me and my family over big time. More than Brexit did. I was always powerless to change anything here, they'll vote reform and they'll go even harder on this shit. Thatcher 2.0 incoming.
You're blaming the current government for a law that was brought in by the previous government.
I'm sorry, which government told us they're not going to discuss this even after the very system designed to bring things up to their attention passed the threshold?
You don't get to hide behind "it was done before we got here" when you're actively pushing for it.
I sure wish Wikipedia would just grow a pair and outright block UK IP addresses.
Is it just me or is this Labour government more far right than the previous Tory one?
Labour have always had a bad track record of civil liberties. Although as the other reply notes this was a Tory policy initially, I've not gone over the proposed amendments to see if they'd have implemented it slightly differently (I suspect not). Unfortunately policies like these are both popular and free for the govt to implement so it's literally a no-brainer for MPs to vote through without thinking about consequences.