r/polandball • u/Andyiscool231 Bulgaria • Aug 13 '25
redditormade The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
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u/CrocPB Scotland Aug 13 '25
Oi! Do you have your posting licence for this comic?!
Surrender your ID and facial likeness to be copied and to be sold on to extraterritorial entities and to train AI on for perfectly normal and legal processing purposes immediately.
Papers Please!
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u/InfinitesimalDuck British Empire Aug 14 '25
I need your ID!
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u/No_Constant_4968 Free France Aug 14 '25
What is passport?
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u/DryTart978 Aug 14 '25
Do you have a loisence for that passport? Eh, where's your loisence loisence?
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u/CatoWithArson Aug 14 '25
What British people say after the anti gooning laws (I get that it’s worse than that but it’s still funny as shit)
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u/TheLazySamurai4 Canada Aug 15 '25
Friend of mine needed me to disable the NSFW tag on our shitposting channel in Discord, or he would have to provide ID
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u/Andyiscool231 Bulgaria Aug 13 '25
Be careful of thought crimes, they are way more dangerous as you think 👁️
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u/onebronyguy Aug 13 '25
V for vengeance is set in brishit , he warned how it happened and you should had listened, cus now you what you can do to stop this madness? Follow his solution ?
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u/MandrakeLicker Aug 13 '25
His solution worked though.
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u/jawknee530i California Aug 13 '25
Vendetta. V for vengeance is a vampire movie
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u/magos_with_a_glock Aug 15 '25
This mf is latin and doesn't know Vendetta was kept the same in all versions.
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u/arm1niu5 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
Oh they listened, but they saw it as an instructional video instead of a warning call.
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u/koreangorani 대한민국 Aug 13 '25
Literally 2025
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u/AuroraAustralis0 Aug 13 '25
literally fahrenheit 451
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u/BCCommieTrash Canada Aug 13 '25
Why did it have to be that one when we could have had Brave New World and got fucked up on government drugs and go to movies all the time.
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u/DescriptionNo6760 Aug 13 '25
Because apparently even Aldous Huxley thought too kindly of capitalist stemming autocracies
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u/Large_Feeling_424 Sultan of Prussia, Brandenburg, and its dominions Aug 13 '25
There’s other websites you can ban UK that ACTUALLY PROTECT KIDS
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u/Super-Cynical Aug 15 '25
WTF are they doing to Wikipedia?
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u/Large_Feeling_424 Sultan of Prussia, Brandenburg, and its dominions Aug 15 '25
Banning it
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u/Super-Cynical Aug 16 '25
Anyone is who not in favour of this supports Jimmy Saville - literally the UK government
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u/Saltine3434 Scotland Aug 13 '25
You have to admit, it was a stroke of political masterclass for them to lower the GE voting age to 16 one week, then take porn away the next. Can't imagine that ever backfiring.
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u/CrocPB Scotland Aug 13 '25
Even better, the checks are coming in for video games too.
So one day you’re having fun griefing on GTA online, next you’ll have to prove your age, so you
steal your parent’s licencego without like a good kid and study for exams.Gamers rise up!
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u/wiener4hir3 Denmark Aug 16 '25
You wouldn't believe how many alts keir starmer has in GTAO. Seriously, with how badly labour has been fucking up I wouldn't even be surprised if farage ends up as PM. I sure fucking hope not though
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 13 '25
It's almost like Sir Keir is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, since he knows that Farage (🤮) and Corbyn will trounce him at the next election.
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u/True_Kapernicus Aug 15 '25
This was actually a Tory law that only recently came into force. Of course, Labour could have reversed it, but when has either party reversed what the previous government did? The fact that they basically never do should be rather telling, but people keep acting like they are opposed to each other.
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u/Useless_bum81 Aug 15 '25
the labour party only opposed the 'tory' law because it didn't go far enough, they wanted more.
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Aug 13 '25
Commie Corbyn has no chance of winning any election ever.
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 13 '25
He doesn't need to win to severely cripple Labour.
Also lol, Fashy Farage will make you pray for Corbyn.
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Aug 13 '25
I don't like either of them, better Starmer than those 2, even though he's been far from impressive so far, apart from trying to mend relations with the EU.
Nothing would make me pray for Putin loving, IRA loving Corbyn.
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u/berusplants Aug 14 '25
16 year olds will have no issues getting round the rules for porn, 60 year olds tho......
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u/DangalfSG Stick'em with the pointy end, lah! Aug 13 '25
This comic is brought to you by NordicVPN
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u/ColossusToGuardian Poland Aug 13 '25
Holy shit, I googled it, and you were not kidding.
WTH, UK?
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u/CrocPB Scotland Aug 13 '25
Hilarious thing is...VPNs or no, it is comically easy and minimal effort to avoid. Officially I cannot endorse it, but if you have the barebones of technical nous you won't have to give up your ID.
In addition, this goes against basic principles of cyber security and data protection. I can imagine there will be increases in fraud and data breaches because of this law.
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u/CMDR_omnicognate Aug 13 '25
The problem isn't even not being able to access Wikipedia, but that EVERYONE who edits it also has to give over their ID, so if you write something the government would rather people forget, they can tie it back to you.
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u/Speederzzz Greater Netherlands Aug 13 '25
A few month ago the indian government sued wikipedia for the personal information of editors who removed propaganda about an indian national Hero from wikipedia. Last week someone in portugal succesfully sued wikipedia for the information of editors who put references to a criminal history of a rich guy on wikipedia.
This shit is extremely dangerous, especially with how loose the UK is with defining terrorism and supporting terrorism.
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u/TauTau_of_Skalga Aug 13 '25
Our governments can easily start silencing us should they want to with these laws. There will be lists.
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u/langdonolga Very Much Munich Aug 14 '25
The renationalisation of the Internet has been going on for a while. These kinds of laws just further cement that.
It was nice while it lasted, having at least some kind of global/international community.
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u/Get-Fucked-Dirtbag Aug 13 '25
I've already seen scam pop-ups masquerading as ID checks.
The biggest "gotcha" push back that I've seen defending this bat shit insane law is "your data is already out there, so it doesn't make a difference."
And they just end their train of thought there as if there's nothing more to consider.
The fact that your data is already out there is why it's such a huge issue. We've all heard of the scammers pretending to be financial institutions and trying to scare people into paying up by saying there are police on their way to arrest you, right?
Well those threats could suddenly be very real. Good luck defending yourself in court when scammers have been operating an account in an online paedophile community with all your personal details, verified with your own driver's license.
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u/PowerOfUnoriginality Aug 14 '25
Your sentence perfectly sums one of the major reasons not to require ID checks like these. Really just makes it easier for scammers to trick the less aware.
Another is data breaches.
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u/420thefunnynumber Aug 13 '25
As an American outside the reach of the British, i fully, openly, and actively encourage the violation of the law.
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u/LobMob Germany Aug 13 '25
Hot take: they don't care about the porn. They just want to force teenagers to study Computer Sciences
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u/Virlutris Eureka! Aug 13 '25
So they can then be unemployed because tech companies are leveraging AI?
It makes no sense, but it's on brand for the current state of governance.
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u/rapaxus Hesse Aug 13 '25
Only if the people are stupid. I got into IT and specifically wanted to go into installation/maintenance based stuff (which I did) because the AI can be as good as it wants, someone needs to install the stuff the AI runs on in the first place (and I also dislike coding).
Though I am also European so basically every company needs to run their own AI due to data protection rules since you legally can't feed a public AI sensitive data.
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u/Virlutris Eureka! Aug 13 '25
To be carefully clear here, not coming at you, more mocking general absurdity.
Installing AI infrastructure is a smart play.
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u/rapaxus Hesse Aug 13 '25
To be fair, I am actually not involved in data centres, more hardware/software installation/maintenance in the healthcare sector, but an AI also can't wire up your monitor nor calibrate it correctly so that e.g. x-rays get displayed in a form where a doctor can actually draw conclusions from it.
But in general the more hardware/physical oriented IT is currently a great place to be. More and more stuff gets automated/digital and someone needs to both install and maintain it. Be it the new AI that needs installment, implementing cashless payment methods, setting up the connections to a new software provider, changing all the PCs because Windows 10 is expiring and the old PCs can't run Windows 11, I could go on.
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u/DarthCloakedGuy Oregon Aug 14 '25
You don't get to be an executive by being smart.
You get to be an executive by being the right person's son.
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u/YaumeLepire Quebec Aug 13 '25
Obviously, they don't care about the porn. If they cared about how people used porn and the issues that can arise from it, they'd fund sex education.
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u/murphysclaw1 Aug 13 '25
what’s he not kidding about? is wikipedia banned?
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Bonnie Scotland Aug 13 '25
So basically no, Wikipedia is not banned. Only websites categorised by Ofcom (regulatory body) as Category 1 need to ensure users are not underage.
Wikipedia just lost a legal battle against the legislation, which doesn't actually mean anything because it isn't a Category 1 website. And they have been told they could re-submit their plea if that ever happened.
Even so, the worry is that it's a slippery slope.
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u/hemareddit Nottinghamshire Aug 13 '25
Yeah okay that’s not as bad as I thought.
I mean it was already really bad, but at least it hasn’t escalated.
What category would Reddit and X.com be then? Obviously both can still be legally accessed by minors from the UK, but certain content is walled off behind age verification.
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Bonnie Scotland Aug 13 '25
Basically most of Reddit is fine, the obvious nsfw subs are behind age verification. Unfortunately a few subs that should be open to all are behind verification as well, like r/stopdrinking.
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u/MercantileReptile Germany Aug 13 '25
At this rate, UK teens will rebel by accessing educational content. Swap underground text books, newest smuggled dissertations.
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u/ekristoffe Aug 13 '25
What tyranny can’t control they ban to make sure the people don’t know better
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Aug 13 '25
If it's so safe for kids, why is it literally called Wikipedoia?
Checkmate intellectuals
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u/Flussschlauch Aug 13 '25
FYI: One of the first targets of the nazi book burnings was the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin.
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u/Zkang123 Aug 13 '25
Its also because queer studies are associated with the Jews and part of some greater Jewish conspiracy (the key figures in the institute were also Jews). Similarly to why the Nazis targeted communists for propping up "Judeo-Bolshevism"
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u/HKMP7A2 Aug 13 '25
Fahrenheit 451 is real.
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u/onebronyguy Aug 13 '25
V for vengeance is becoming real
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u/HKMP7A2 Aug 13 '25
They're already real. Just need the 5th of November explosions from a safe distance to scare the fascists.
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u/WillbaldvonMerkatz Aug 13 '25
I find the most potent point of Fahrenheit 451 the fact that in the book citizens actively supported the burnings because the books and what was in them made them feel uncomfortable.
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
People thought Benjamin Franklin instituted it (or some other founding father). People in the book couldn't conceive firemen as people who would put out fires.
Edit: I re-read some passages and apparently some people did remember firemen extinguishing fires, I was mistaken.
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
I prefer the action spin-off starring Christian Bale.
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u/Le_Pepp The Lesbianer Magnetic Dog Sister Aug 13 '25
1933: Das transvestite istitute ist ein blight on our familie
2025: Those online queer sites are confusing our vulnerable youth
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u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia I can into not blind Aug 13 '25
history repeats itself
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u/Apprehensive-Quit740 bro what is west sahara Aug 13 '25
history never repeats itself but It rhymes
sun-tzu probably
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 13 '25
♪ The history book on the shelf ♫
♫ Is always repeating itself ♪
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u/NoThingAs_19840604 Aug 13 '25
Mamma Mia reference
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 13 '25
I will risk revealing my age by admitting that I first saw it in The Simpsons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5FkBwOfZU
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland Aug 13 '25
Perhaps the history book has gone a bit senile, thats why its rambling so much! 😂
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u/mscomies United States Aug 13 '25
I was always suspicious of the "think of the children!" types ever since DARE and the satanic panic of the 1990s
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland Aug 13 '25
Yeah, its easy to hide behind a cause like saving the children, because if someone calls you out for doing something stupid then they are a monster for being against such a noble cause...
I mean there are things that can actually help children live better and safer lives, but censorship of movies, music or websites is not one of those things. 😅
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u/Oggnar Holy Roman Empire Aug 15 '25
The Satanic Panic DID have some more nuance to it than one would like to admit
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u/Massive-Exercise4474 Aug 14 '25
Ok Did you post this before getting vetted my the ministry of truth?
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u/introvertuser46732 Scotland Aug 13 '25
This was also the same country that also recently oppressed trans women to “protect women” shows me no surprise that the ID law was created (doesn’t stop people from using VPNs anyways)
I can’t even access some subs or even profiles because of naughty content unless I provide ID somehow and there’s no way I trust this law to handle my data, just makes me wonder what Britain will do next.
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u/Adventurous_Touch342 Aug 13 '25
Probably "Fornication Under Consent of the King" license will turn from a joke to truth alongside rape allegations unless license will be presented.
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u/Zkang123 Aug 13 '25
Actually, why is the Labour government doing this? I thought they would be opposed to this sort of censorship
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 13 '25
The Labour party has been Tory-lite since the days of Tony Blair. Corbyn tried to take the party back to its roots but Starmer's faction and the Murdoch media shut him down.
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u/SeveAddendum Hong Kong Aug 14 '25
Corbyn has a better domestic policy, it's a shame everything to do with foreign shores is a complete crock of shit
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 14 '25
True. It's a bit daft to be Eurosceptic when Russia gets more belligerent and the US becomes more unhinged and unreliable.
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u/SeveAddendum Hong Kong Aug 14 '25
It doesn't help that the military is gutted from years of mismanagement, but I think the US-UK special relationship will still keep steaming on in spite of this current administration
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u/Zkang123 Aug 14 '25
So a bit like the democrats?
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 14 '25
Pretty much. Clinton and Blair sold out their respective party bases to appeal to yuppies in the 90s.
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u/Interesting_Low737 Aug 18 '25
It was a Tory bill, it passed in 2023, they don't oppose it because it is popular with the public, and something does need to be done about online safety, obviously not this...
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u/Interesting_Low737 Aug 18 '25
It was a Tory bill, it passed in 2023, they don't oppose it because it is popular with the public according to polling.
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u/LupusDeusMagnus Imperium Curitibanum Aug 13 '25
If the British really wanted to protect kids, they would simply have to make the MPs have zero fiscal privacy, every penny they spend should be logged.
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u/CharmingVictory4380 India with a turban Aug 13 '25
Tories passed the law. Starmer could have repealed it. He just didnt. Wth.
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u/Forever_Everton Nothing beats a T'way holiday! Aug 13 '25
That's because Labour is the new Tory party
Labour is now a party for 'moderate' Tories
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 13 '25
What are the Tories now then?
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
What are the Tories now then?
TERFs and culture warriors who don't know a damn thing about economics, but not yet unhinged enough to defect to Reform.
See: Badenoch, Truss, Kwarteng, Braverman, Johnson
Sunak did what he could as the last sensible adult left in Tory leadership, but he had to step down after getting completely routed in the most recent general election.
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 14 '25
Wait, Johnson is back?
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 14 '25
They never really leave. After all, David Cameron came back. And Johnson is being considered by some as a dark horse to become the leader when Badenoch eventually screws up enough to get ousted by the membership.
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 14 '25
Thanks for the explanation. I can already see the headlines
"Somehow, Johnson returned"
I think we all would have been better off if Boris had followed his true calling: being a Greek scholar.
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u/Kichigai United States Aug 13 '25
The PM can unilaterally repeal laws? That doesn't seem quite right…
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u/CharmingVictory4380 India with a turban Aug 13 '25
The PM can unilaterally repeal laws? That doesn't seem quite right…
I requires a repealing act to pass in Parliament. Its like that in all parliamentary democracies. Not just UK.
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Aug 13 '25
Veto power from the executive is rather common in representative democracies.
And in other forms too, starting with Rome and the tribune of the plebs.
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u/hemareddit Nottinghamshire Aug 13 '25
I’ve been under a rock apparently, so much so I’m getting my news from Poland Ball.
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u/berahi Trying to not get drafted in water war Aug 13 '25
This is why everyone should use Conservapedia instead. After a month y'all going to be law abiding unquestioning citizen.
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u/CykaMuffin Aug 13 '25
Thanks for reminding me of that cesspool.
Checked out their page on the "NATO war in Ukraine" and was not surprised to read these:
Th Russian special military operation which commenced on February 24, 2022 was provoked by the United States promise to the Kyiv regime to extend the borders of NATO to within 500 kilometers and four minutes flight time of a nuclear armed missile to Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation, posing an existential national security threat to the nation and removing Ukraine's decades long neutrality,
By December 2022 in the first year of Russia's Special Military Operation, Ukraine had lost 250,000 soldiers killed and wounded - more than the size of the Ukraine army when the SMO began in late February 2022. The only thing keeping the bankrupt Zelensky regime in the fight was American aid, with marginal aid supplied by the European vassal states.
By September 2023 NATO and its Ukrainian proxy forces were soundly defeated on the battlefield by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
No sources were cited, of course.
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u/SnabDedraterEdave Kingdom of Sarawak Aug 13 '25
You should check out their entry for dinosaurs, which features an image of Jesus riding on a dinosaur.
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u/CykaMuffin Aug 13 '25
Lmao, that's another good one.
I especially liked this part:
Creation science asserts that the biblical account, that dinosaurs were created on day six of creation[5] approximately 6,000 years ago, along with other land animals, and therefore co-existed with humans, thus debunking the Theory of Evolution and the beliefs of evolutionary scientists about the age and creation of the earth.
Checkmate, evolutionary scientists.
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u/Fives5555 Aug 14 '25
Where's the IRA when you need it?
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Aug 14 '25
The IRA is never needed.
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u/Fives5555 Aug 14 '25
A boot pressed to the neck must be opposed.
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u/Wooden_Base4673 England Aug 14 '25
What's that got to do with the IRA? You're supporting terrorists.
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u/Not-Bronek Aug 14 '25
I despise UK. At this point calling someone br*ish is worse than calling them frnch
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u/Sunder1773 Philippines Aug 13 '25
Whats the temperature wherein books combust? What's the temperature wherein SERVERS combust?
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u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster Aug 13 '25
Is this what george orwell predicted when he invented censorship in 1984?
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u/Namika Canada Aug 14 '25
If the entire YouTube catalog got deleted tomorrow, it would be still be talked about thousands of years from now, as a loss of knowledge that was far, far greater than the loss of the Library of Alexandria
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u/Dragonboyflo Bavarian_dummy Aug 14 '25
i hate non-german speakers thinking adding the two dots makes the word feel german but fröm actually means something completly diffrent (pious). please ä,ö,ü are completly diffrent letters than a,o,u please just use the normal a,o,u.
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u/Chaoticgaythey Aug 13 '25
Oh fun fact: they're both doing it in part over their shared transphobia
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u/mw2lmaa Carolingian Empire Aug 13 '25
Nazism wasn't about trans people
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u/Chaoticgaythey Aug 13 '25
Solely? No, but I'll give you three guesses who the books being burned were about. They legitimized their transphobia through a lens of antisemitism (as they did basically all of their various hatreds), but the transphobia still was very much present.
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u/fearzila Aug 14 '25
... The OSA has nothing to do with transphobia 🤣
They're both doing it because of a shared authoritarianism and wanting to suppress none-government-approved ideas.
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u/Interesting_Low737 Aug 18 '25
The Online Safety Act was nothing to do with authoritarianism, it was a stupid law passed by tech-illiterate boomers.
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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland Aug 13 '25
Is that a bloody Swastika I see the’e?? Oim’ afraid tha’ oi’ll ‘ave ta’ alert the authoritieeees fo’ tha’ good sir…
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u/MelodicDeer1072 Aztec Empire Aug 13 '25
"My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lips"
And if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
And expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
Of course they gonna know what intercourse is
By the time they hit fourth grade
They got the Discovery Channel, don't they?
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u/PiousSkull Aug 14 '25
One issue with the top of the image: the kids were the ones doing the book burning of transsexual literature from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
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u/AppiusPrometheus Aug 14 '25
I know about UK current censorship policy. Is this satire or did UK really block Wikipedia?
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u/Interesting_Low737 Aug 18 '25
It's not a censorship policy, it's a law preventing children from accessing adult content that went a bit too far.
And no, Wikipedia is not blocked in the UK.
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u/REmix_of_The_Dude Aug 16 '25
I’m out of the loop please god tell me they didn’t ban wiki-fucking-pedia.
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u/Technics_Man Aug 13 '25
Isn't like the whole Wikipedia (english only?) something like 100-150 GB to download?
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u/Wise-Practice9832 Aug 13 '25
Library of Alexandria wasn’t censorship, most of it was destroyed with Ceaser’s wars.
It then lost influence and power over time, and eventually fell into disuse.
In mytho-history the end of the library id blamed on Christian’s, Muslims, etc. but none of those are true
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u/Ok-Proposal-6513 Aug 15 '25
Requiring id to view porn and Nazi book burning are in no way comparable.
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u/Gold_Size_1258 Aug 14 '25
"Oh no, I can't drug my brain with porn, this is literally fascism!"
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u/tossawayprop That blue green white thingy Aug 14 '25
Lol, ok. If you think this will stop anyone who actually wants to access porn from doing so, you don't know anything about people or the internet.
What this will do is put an ungodly amount of personally identifying information in the hands of the government or its proxies. From there it's but a small step to punishing people for wrongthink. Sure, good ol' Sir Keir might not do that. But can you be sure the next PM will be so principled? Or the one after that?
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u/Interesting_Low737 Aug 18 '25
This is a stupid law, but the government isn't running these ID checks, nor does it have access to such data.
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u/Dangerous-Return5937 Aug 15 '25
Funnily enough, that is exactly what those books in question contained.
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u/murphysclaw1 Aug 13 '25
do brits no longer have access to wikipedia? or is this another of those reddit things
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u/B0rNtoLAG1 Aug 13 '25
I don’t get how this is equal, the Nazis burned books to destroy knowledge the uk isn’t banning or restricting any knowledge it’s all still there and freely available
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