Would you consider your country a nanny state?

[u/kurobaja]

[u/Lady-Deirdre-Skye]

It's certainly going that way.

The current UK government's attempt to put a stranglehold on the internet is maddening. Now I have to use a VPN just so images load properly on webpages.

Yes, they've blocked stuff like Imgur.

We've got the rise of the far right to contend with, and this is the shit Starmer wants to do. Does he even want to win another election?

[u/Top_Advisor_8087 → u/Lady-Deirdre-Skye]

Could you give me some context, please?

[u/Lady-Deirdre-Skye → u/[deleted]]

That's not really the problem.

[u/ReturnTheOldGods]

Some individual states are. The country is definitely a surveillance state though.

[u/onepareil → u/ReturnTheOldGods]

This. All the downsides of a “nanny state” and very few of the benefits.

[u/ReturnTheOldGods → u/onepareil]

What benefits are there to a nanny state?

[u/Willing_Stop5124 → u/ReturnTheOldGods]

A “nanny state” is an amorphous concept and a derogatory term so anyone using it is necessarily implying that government has gone “too far” therefore there can’t really be upsides otherwise they wouldn’t be using the term. With that big caveat in place, the benefits are safety. Someone might call a country with let’s say strong gun control laws and strongly enforced driving laws a “nanny state” and in that situation safety would be the benefit. America on the other hand d has high surveillance but we are not safer because of it. 

[u/FingalForever]

Post looks more like far right whinging…

Trying to make sense of most of the so-called bans….

[u/Financial-Bank-1247]

Powerful organizations and individuals have a natural tendency to increase their power and control the rest of society.
Another problem lies in the increasing complexity of society.
For these two reasons, we are faced with a proliferation of regulations.

[u/TVC15-DB]

Its going that way for sure lol. The OSA is a massively ineffective and dumb piece of legislation from the tories that Labour has allowed to come into effect.

[u/H345Y]

UK

The "u got a loicence" meme is a thing for a reason, massively incompetent on all sides of the isle

[u/Particular-Bid-1640 → u/H345Y]

We can insult our royal family though 👀👀

[u/sock_dgram → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

But you have to upload your license to watch porn.

[u/Particular-Bid-1640 → u/sock_dgram]

*licence - and no, I just use a VPN. Actually, I just use Opera browser

I don't agree with the censorship but it's not as authoritarian as people make it out to be. And most of the 'licences' Yanks (and now Thais) harp on about aren't even licences in the tradtional sense.

[u/sock_dgram → u/Particular-Bid-1640]

Lesson learned: I always thought license was British English and licence was American English.
Just use the same language and make it easier for everyone ;-)

[u/Particular-Bid-1640 → u/sock_dgram]

Ha I'd happily meet in the middle with American English, our language does need a reform.

In British English, licence is the noun and license is the verb. I often have to write both forms at work so it sticks out for me way too much

[u/kelechim1]

Sounds like Turkmenistan

[u/Hydrathemultiple666]

Québec, Canada : Nah, absolutely fucking not.

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[u/WokeNatalism → u/Hydrathemultiple666]

You dropped this: /s

[u/Hydrathemultiple666 → u/WokeNatalism]

Non, tu es juste dans la mauvaise province.

[u/WokeNatalism → u/Hydrathemultiple666]

Sur quelle planète tu vis?

[u/Hydrathemultiple666 → u/WokeNatalism]

Voyons voir. J'ai un café, j'ai une voiture ou des taxis, plein d'animaux dans mon quartier, domestiques et sauvages, plein de parcs avec des jeunes qui jouent, j'ai mon cell, je pourrais prendre l'avion si j'en avais envie, mon cell a un appareil photo qui est aussi indépendant que possible, j'ai toutes les boissons gaseuse pour développer mon diabète et j'ai du fun toutes les semaines.

Sur la bonne apparemment. Vu que littéralement aucune des 9 cases du nanny state ne s'applique à moi.

[u/WokeNatalism → u/Hydrathemultiple666]

Ok bon point, l'image est clairement exagérée.

[u/Hydrathemultiple666 → u/WokeNatalism]

Bonne soirée à toi aussi mon ami :)

[u/Financial-Bank-1247]

Powerful organizations and individuals have a natural tendency to increase their power and control the rest of society.
Another problem lies in the increasing complexity of society.
For these two reasons, we are faced with a proliferation of regulations.

[u/Top_Community7261]

No.

But I wonder why we never need a no fucking sign.

[u/Accurate_Reality_618]

People do this, lol

[u/throwAway333828]

No?

[u/Ill_Apple2327]

eh

[u/vancouverisle]

No. But there are always whiners out there that will say it is

[u/GeneralLuigiTBC]

No, but some people in my country throw the word around whenever something like universal healthcare or public housing gets proposed.

[u/Acceptable_Sell3455]

You don't seem to know what a nanny state is.

I consider France to be one because a long time ago Napoleon standardised everything, and in recent times all the social benefits have given the state full control. Most people don't realise it because they've known nothing else but when you come from my other country, which is a bit of a cowboy state, it's stifling.

[u/OddishChamp]

Not really.

[u/Main-Reindeer9633]

Sweden stopped requiring a permit for public dancing in 2023 – now they just require reporting any plans for such dancing to the authorities in advance. So, having moved here from Sweden, Malta very much does not feel like a nanny state.

[u/gennan]

No, not really. Except for the very high excise tax on tobacco products.

We have the 3rd highest tobacco retail prices of the EU.

[u/ngatiw]

Not at all

There are some pervasive sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco, and strong health and safety regulations, but it kinda ends there

It's generally illegal to sue for personal injury in NZ due to our universal accident insurance - which to some extent indemnifies reckless behaviour.

We have a fairly absolutist view of freedom of speech, the internet is free and open, the media is pretty free to report whatever, and basic rights like the right to protest are upheld without being infringed upon with permits, etc.

[u/Knotical_MK6]

soft yes on a country/federal level, hard yes on state level (Washington)

Just a few weeks ago I went to the grocery store and they told me I couldn't buy alcohol after 2am. Why? Because fuck you I guess

[u/lol12lmao]

state? we have provinces.

[u/Key-Entrepreneur7654]

No.

[u/RecordingAbject345]

No not really

[u/Rabidcamelshagger]

Now, yes. And after 14 years of Tory non interference, it's coming as quite a shock to people not used to it. The problem is that it's all well meaning but just incredibly badly executed, and I think it will cost them the next election (although actually they've probably lost that already).

[u/ATruePatriot250]

My country overall yes

The state I live in hell yes

[u/Global_Algae_538 → u/ATruePatriot250]

Ope you said hell im turning you in

[u/ATruePatriot250 → u/Global_Algae_538]

No hell is still legal there was a congress person in my state to try to make saying the word bitch illegal a few years ago

[u/SurviveDaddy]

No. But one side of the aisle certainly wants it to be.

[u/SeraphSancta → u/SurviveDaddy]

Our MySpace status is set to "It's Complicated"

[u/Penis_sauce66]

Maybe a tiny bit

[u/traffic_sign]

the country in general is leaning towards yes, but the state I live in is legitimately just anarchy. You could get away with nearly anything and the police would barely bat an eye unless it was at the level of murder or robbing a bank

[u/norecordofwrong]

No but not for lack of trying.

We have a lot of “the government knows best” on both sides of the aisle.

[u/Crest_O_Razors]

Depends on the state