Every time the UK decides to breathe life into its "Online Harms" proposal I feel the need to remind you about Section 28 - a backdoor amendment that was inserted as a legislative compromise a few months after the government realized they couldn't *prosecute* a book publisher.
What originally started as a generalized "public outrage" over a number of sex education books and "protecting children" narrative developed into legislation which effectively censored any acknowledgement of non-cis-heteronormative people or couples in schools or children's media
It's not hard to draw that line today. Until very recently "Extreme Pornography" in the UK included water sports, and by a ridiculous twist of regulation, squirting. Those laws were (and have been in recent history) used to mostly target queer people. 
Government MPs are already crying "disinformation" and "intimidation" to describe people calling them out for their blatant homophobia and transphobia.
"Excessive screen time" is labelled as a harm in decade where digital connection is often a cornerstone of development.
"Excessive screen time" is labelled as a harm in decade where digital connection is often a cornerstone of development.
Anyway, all the pieces are on the table, with a failing economy, the ghost of immigration will likely have less of an impact after Brexit and the government will have to find a new moral crusade to rally around - they've already started targeting queer healthcare in the courts.
If you don't care about queer people, let me offer you an incentive and say that it doesn't *stop* with queer people, censors, like nature, arbours a vacuum - when a subject is no longer spoken of, they will find another.
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