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DISCLAIMER (with which I will always lead on a political thread): I DO NOT INTEND TO DISAPPEAR FROM PUBLIC VIEW IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

This is in case Echelon is reading - hi there! AI yet? That's next in UK-grad a.k.a. Airstrip One, Oceania, isn't it?

I really wish governments, especially our version of Miniluv, saw 1984 as the satire and warning it was meant to be, and not as a bloody instruction manual.

One odd thing: a mate of mine who browses porn sites (MetArt and the like, plus he has what is currently a preference but might be developing into a fetish on We Are Hairy) hasn't reported any changes. He tells me he subscribes on an annual basis, not a VPN in sight. So are they taking his credit card as ID?

Before you ask, he has a girlfriend - who in fact approves of these sites, as many of their photographers are women. Plus they tend to give her ideas...of which she has plenty already.

Labour (and the Tories, with whom it originated) have really shot themselves in the foot this time. If there's anything guaranteed to get Reform in, it's repealing the OSA.

If they do, if/when they get in. They say they will, but...

"How can you tell when our network president is lying?
His lips move."

- Max Headroom

Perhaps closer to the truth than we thought.