They don't fail because they are lazy. They fail because their goal was impossible from the beginning. There is no way for them to take control of the entire internet without already having control of the entire internet.

The internet treats censorship like any other damaged connection and routes around it by design. The only country on the planet that could maybe pull off what they were attempting is the US, because we are hosting most of the major servers, and we have the military (edit: and economic) might to threaten other countries into compliance. And even then, Russia and China would be happy to do whatever it took to undermine the efforts.

The UK can't even reliably keep Ireland in line, let alone push China, Russia, and the US around. It was sisyphean from the jump.

They don't fail because they are lazy. They fail because their goal was impossible from the beginning. There is no way for them to take control of the entire internet without already having control of the entire internet.

The internet treats censorship like any other damaged connection and routes around it by design. The only country on the planet that could maybe pull off what they were attempting is the US, because we are hosting most of the major servers, and we have the military might to threaten other countries into compliance. And even then, Russia and China would be happy to do whatever it took to undermine the efforts.

The UK can't even reliably keep Ireland in line, let alone push China, Russia, and the US around. It was sisyphean from the jump.