What's very curious is how many MPs etc. have been openly hating on Elon Musk because he's got the ultimate fuck you position of being a billionaire and owning Twitter. They know all the normies will be getting their information from twitter in a lot of cases despite how much they've been spamming news articles which have lulled for the moment.
Predictably, on the ground they've got Stand Up To Racism who are actual communists and professional activists so you'll be seeing a lot of these cretins about this weekend screaming about Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage. My money though is on them pulling something potentially quite desperate, they could end up pissing away a government contract on creating some kind of twitter alternative just to spite Elon Musk and block twitter.
It's a completely retarded idea, but something they are more than capable of now I know just how retarded they are. What I think they might do is create a twitter clone and then have the ISPs all redirect any twitter links to the twitter clone in an effort to get normies to use that instead.
The will force Facebook's Threads. That is why they were having his son bash him from there, to create a narrative that Threads is the sanctioned alternative.
The fully censored and left-biased Threads. What a joy :-/
Any 'Twitter alternative' this Labour LEFTIST government comes up with will be tossed into the dump with the OTHER Twitter alternatives, the fact you'd have the civil service working on it means I doubt it'll even have a homepage before being scrapped after £30 million is used on consulting fees.
The problem is even if they force normies to be redirected to a clone, they'll tell immediately that it ain't the real one. The lack of engagement from everyone INTERNATIONALLY would be a huge tip off. I wouldn't also be surprised if that opens up a new can of worms of Elon accusing (rightfully) that the UK government is stealing intellectual property without compensation so you might end up with a bigger brain drain as tech companies begin relocating to protect their assets from seizure.
Every indication leads me to think this government will destroy themselves to show their 'strength', it won't even be a phyricc victory as they'll lose but will never admit it.
I mean, that would be hilarious and fantastic if that's the sort of thing that finally causes them to collapse, very much a wait and see situation with that though. I agree it would be a total failure, I just think this is what they're going to do, they've never been afraid to piss away money on failure projects before and they have always had a hard on in my country for trying to police the internet.
I think what would be the funniest thing, is if a twitter shut down among other things would force the normies to go outside and they'd realise how pissed off they all are which would definitely cause a countrywide collapse. Hell, they might even be more retarded than that which is something I'm now accounting for and they might decide that games have to go as well among other things in order to do a full communications blackout.
Not realising of course that video games among other things are the only stuff preventing the younger generations from sperging out entirely over how shit their lives are. It was kind of funny actually because I saw a normie comment on a youtube video regarding rioting teenagers about how they would much rather their child be indoors playing fortnite if that's the alternative.
Too bad normie parents, gamers are considered far right by this leftist government so that means fortnite has to go trolololol.
This would be the result of targeting games, Anime and foreign media in general for the normies.
Living under a leftist regime with NO distractions makes people want to kill each other. The trans aren't even at that stage and they're at 49% all the time not to mention how many drugs the average activist needs to stop the self reflection on how they wasted their lives..
You already have no bread and are now taking away the circuses, It'd be more efficient if the UK government jumped off Dover cliff than waste time and resources stoking enough resentment that they'd turn a blind eye the next time an MP is stabbed to death..
Most of those people would either take out their anger on the regressive left, police, Islam, etc., or flee the country.
I personally think you are right and they will attempt to create a new state approved X clone in the short term. Which is probably why they are bringing forward the request to enforce the next stage of the Online Safety Act which allows for fines, shut downs and blocking. In the long term they will probably transition residential Internet users to a national Intranet where everything will be curated, licensed and controlled by the state "for your safety". As far as the Government is concerned, user generated content was a mistake that should never have happened.
It's likely Labour will also ban VPN's. They tried to bring in an amendment to the Online Safety Bill but failed. Now they have the numbers to succeed.
It looks like their next tactic is to arrest people based on "inaccurate information" as per the new Online Safety Act 2023. And further to the post I made on the same subject, we know that the person arrested is a prominent critic of the Government, in particular when it came to lockdown, vaccine and mask mandates - Bernie Spofforth, who has appeared on GB News and Talk.
https://archive.is/bWBPg
Katie Hopkins, another prolific critic of the Government has been reported to the police under the same law.