I imagine the quality of life for the people of North Korea isn't any worse than the average Brit. There is no real freedom of speech in Britain, our people are being locked up or persecuted up for what they say, for which political party they support. We are bled dry in taxes and forced to pay for vile marxist propaganda spewed out by the disgraceful Biased Brainwashing Corporation.
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Yes, remember that time the queen discovered a unicorn lair, or when Princess Di's wedding was heralded by the lions of the London Zoo singing praise to the royal family in perfect English? That all sounds just a bit far fetched, doesn't it? Well, my uncle criticized the above stories on Twitter, and got disappeared as a result. No freedom of speech, I tell you.
Oh, wait. Citizens don't have internet connections in North Korea.
Yes, clearly you are being censored and oppressed on the TV station you are criticizing.
Have you even BEEN to North Korea? Have you even been to BRITAIN outside your basement?
"forced to pay for vile marxist propaganda spewed out by the disgraceful Biased Brainwashing Corporation."
It would seem you do not understand the incompatibility between marxism and corporations...
Come back once you have sampled North Korea's hospitality.
Now I've got a cartoon in my head of a man claiming he's starving to death while sitting down to a meal.
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@ Dynamic Dragon
I'm about as artistically talented as a head of cabbage. Can't even draw stick men. Ever meet someone that actually failed an art class? Yeah. THAT bad.
Arguably our free speech in Britian has been restricted to prevent hate speech. But, given that that is the will of the people - as we're mostly not racist morons - I'm fine with the restriction.
North Korea is . . . well, it's North Korea.
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Why don't you draw it?
@ chinger
Source on that?
Fuck up in North Korea and the punishment for you and your entire family is spending the rest of your lives in a forced labor camp that will make Auschwitz look like Disneyland in comparison. Doesn't matter what your crime was because all crimes are considered equal over there whether it would be murder or simply talking bad about someone from the Kim Dynasty. On the other hand, Britain is centuries ahead and they actually have the decency to treat their citizens like human beings while North Korea is seemingly stuck in the Dark Ages. The two are nothing alike.
The comparison might be absurd, but the destruction of freedom of speech in the UK is all too real, I'm firmly of the opinion that saying racist things might be abhorrent, but it should not be illegal unless it is intended to incite violence, unfortunately saying something that can be construed as racist is now a crime here, and that signifies the death of freedom of speech.
I don't think that there's any specific plan to it (and certainly not a conspiracy), but I do think that the people of the UK are becoming slowly conditioned to accept less and less freedom, and although this won't result in North Korea-style oppression, it will make my country of birth an unpleasant place to live in comparison to the rest of the first-world nations.
It'll be a sad day if the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution that civilised the world becomes the least pleasant of those civilised nations.
@ chinger
You're aware that the first guy was arrested not because he insulted Tom Daley, but because he threatened to track him down and drown him?
And yes, lots of European countries have a less liberal approach to free speech than America; with more emphasis on consequences for 'hurtful' speech
But I think there's generally considered to be a grey area between Land of the free and Koran style police state
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