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It's designed to facilitate the enforcement of prohibition of broad classes of criticism against the British government and ruling caste.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599665 "Influence over public discourse."





Can you give one example of that happening that's not coached in some context? These claims always seem pretty far fetched to me, bordering conspiratorial.

British politicians are weenies who can't handle American banter. They get all bent out of shape when Americans tell British people that their government is replacing them with third worlders and they should start killing their politicians. The British government wants to ban this kind of criticism (probably because they're failing to refute it in the public's eye), but are powerless to stop Americans who are well within their legal rights to say things like this. In the past they relied on American corporations cooperating with their censorious requests even though it wasn't legally required, but now that you have people like Elon Musk openly defying the British government and even seeming to side with the aforementioned critics, the British government is all kinds of pissed.

I don't think you're commenting in good faith at all.

> They get all bent out of shape when Americans tell British people that their government is replacing them with third worlders and they should start killing their politicians.

>but are powerless to stop Americans who are well within their legal rights to say things like this.

Weird thing to say when it would be illegal in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_government_officia...




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