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I guess some of you have been following

the immigration riots in the UK and the 

chilling attempt by the government to stifle

any criticism of government policy.

Its taken a foreign billionaire Musk to set straight

Keir Starmer on his duty to the country.  But

what I am concerned about is the ability of

the establishment to even curtail expression 

of support on social media.   A guy who supported

the riots got 2 years just for supporting them on

Facebook.

It seems to me that the mistake has been to allow

our main media outlets to be privatised which has

allowed totalitarian control of communications and

easy identification.   Given the two extremes of government

control and freedom of expression with the usual 

proportion of nobheads that you get with freedom, I'd 

rather have the latter.   I've now got more used to dealing 

with nobheads.

But really FaceBook, Youtube and the rest are just an invitation

to state control.    The OS movement is all about freedom so why

haven't we got together to create platforms which are free

from establishment control?    Can we do better?

Mark