when it started if you're a social media content producer you might want to check them out so another small brick has been placed atop the ever-growing wall between ordinary people and their right to freedom of expression which incidentally includes not just the production of content but also your consumption of it i.e you have the right to search out and watch what you like unless it is against the law to do so supposedly free speech is in regressive mode at present but social media is just one aspect of all of this but before i continue i just want to say a massive thank you to all my super thanks patreon and paypal supporters as well as those that do buy a mug with my mug on it links in the descriptions box below you really do help me keep this channel going now when i got this warning yesterday i thought about how many subjects are now verboten on social media and with some of the legislation coming through in scotland and now in the uk it seems it could start becoming illegal to discuss things in your own home with people you consider your friends and family it's almost as if we are being herded like cattle into a mental corral where our friends and relatives report us to the local free speech commissars to be sent for re-education or worse just look at the courses springing up everywhere that employees now have to attend and it got me thinking about how a government would control the moving of the people into just such a scenario well they would need to expand the state giving ever more minor local powers to publicly funded busybody jobs worths that continually fail to deliver employ an army of psychologists install them in a government nudge unit and task them to come out with communication ideas that gently move public perceptions on selected issues keep making and unmaking laws that unsettle people and leave them confused and ever more insecure not knowing if what they did yesterday is still okay to do today take control away from parents make grand promises of jam tomorrow big five-year style plans that never seem to materialize promise to work hard for the people while the outcomes always seem to come out against them then gradually take command of the economy by making sure only the huge corporates can survive and the rest are on a barely acceptable minimum wage and taxed to the hilt in the process make ownership hard but renting easy while expensive and also more sinisterly to generate constant internal division amongst the citizenry across all manner of political cultural religious and even medical grounds all this of course could never happen in a democracy especially one that has as well embedded as ours here in the uk is could it then i looked at what the supposedly conservative chancellor rishi sunak was doing in his latest budget taxes up national debt up inflation up council tax going up with interest rates going up to follow while more money is allocated to government departments and local government and wage rises that will be eroded by those taxes and that inflation you get the idea and the whole thing has left many economics and financial pundits scratching their heads and calling this far more of a gordon brown budget than a margaret thatcher budget and brown always struck me as an economic control freak and i always look at boris and his cabinet and what they're doing now or more exactly what issues they are now ignoring now many people will point to the aftermath of the second world war for example that forced the uk government to take full charge as some sort of parallel to the pandemic
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN but before i continue i just want to say a massive thank you to all my super thanks patreon and paypal supporters as well as those that do buy a mug with my mug on it links in the descriptions box below you really do help me keep this channel going END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN