China has been championing the 3 Fs:
- fear - laws which deter
- friction - tech that fails on purpose
- flooding - overwhelming state-approved messaging
"freedom of speech, not reach" is exactly the "friction" point of a modern, digital, totalitarian statecraft.
UK adopting Chinese methods
I think nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt was suggesting this will happen on some pod.
Your right on target there 🎯
“Freedom of speech, not reach” is the velvet curtain of a technocratic regime. Orwell gave us the warning. China gave us the model. The UK just copied the interface.
Yes, the West is adopting China's Great Firewall approach to information control.
Despite being done with covid, we are going deeper into unrestricted warfare.
You’re right, Laser. The Great Firewall is the new Western template.
Covid was the dress rehearsal. Emergency powers morphed into persistent infrastructure. Surveillance, speech throttling, and narrative control became policy, not precaution. What was once unthinkable is now default.
I’m not sure how the general population will deal with this. Some have wised up, but others still hold the same conditioning and will sadly still comply.
History shows us that emergency powers are rarely rolled back. After 9/11, the Patriot Act normalised mass surveillance. What was sold as protection became permanent infrastructure.
Covid extended that architecture. Tools designed for a health crisis, tracking apps, speech controls, digital passes, now underpin the legal censorship framework. These tools may not be fully active yet, but the rails remain intact and will likely be developed further.
History also shows how the public reacts. At first, fear makes people comply. Later, inertia keeps them quiet. By the time the danger is obvious, the apparatus is entrenched. A few resist, some adapt, but most retreat into silence, hoping not to be noticed.
Today, that silence is compliance, and compliance is exactly what the system is built to expect.
