alt Hacker NewsMass surveillance and living in a police state is an ingrained part of British culture.
It is no wonder to me that police procedurals are the most popular genre of TV shows in UK by quite a margin. They really are high-quality, but it does really feel like thinly-veiled propaganda (often commissioned by the BBC) portraying the State and police as the good guys in their endless quest against the baddies. Thank god there are CCTVs at every corner keeping the peace!
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remus • yesterday at 5:14 PM
Have you lived in the UK? I have, and it doesn't feel like a police state.
Weird extrapolation. They're popular in lots of places - Law & Order has been running 30 years.
None of this is unique to the UK. I'm old enough to remember 24, the show that whitewashed torture while people were getting renditioned by the CIA.
I'd be more surprised if there was a country where this kind of thing didn't happen.