How were you not aware of UK precedents in surveillance and blocking Internet connections before 6 months ago?

In my books, the UK is the father of Orwellian censorship and surveillance, they just didn't get down to do it completely (yet).

America's Founders saw civil rights as inherent in the Constitution's framework, rooted in natural law. They added the Bill of Rights as an explicit bulwark. That's why we have the 1st Amendment's free speech, and if that falls, the 2nd Amendment ensures we have guns.

Don't worry. You'll call us conspiracy theories once you get used to the new goalposts and we warn you about the next thing.

How about instead of being depressed you start being vocal and defiant?

When ES leaked his info to the Guardian people, they could still (2013) use the Guardian's US base to publish, protected by the US' stronger freedom of speech laws. Now, in 2025, if the same were to happen again, I'm not sure that would work quite the same way, with Trump aggressively taking American citizens' rights away.

Maybe The Guardian should open a branch in Sealand...