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Anonymous No.719869341 >>719869586 >>719870280 >>719870342 >>719870967 >>719874093 >>719876346 >>719881587 >>719881650 >>719882394 >>719883571 >>719884502 >>719885990 >>719889935 >>719890792 >>719896554
You will now have to verify your age to play hentai games.
Anonymous No.719869532 >>719870230 >>719872510 >>719876074 >>719886446 >>719892274
Bongbros... do you need help?
Anonymous No.719869534 >>719869990
Guys Helldivers 2 is forcing you to sign into PSN account to play, what's our plan to fight back against this?
Anonymous No.719869586
>>719869341 (OP)
nooooooo I was going to use my money to pay for those
Anonymous No.719869990
>>719869534
just make extra psn account i guess so evil valve won't get the information of your main account
Anonymous No.719870230 >>719876386
>>719869532
Yes, send all the liberty you can.
Anonymous No.719870280 >>719882496 >>719882680 >>719885921
>>719869341 (OP)
>You
sorry I live in a REAL democratic country
Anonymous No.719870342 >>719882680
>>719869341 (OP)
No, I don't. I live in a country that values privacy and freedom.
Anonymous No.719870523 >>719879028
>It's easier to get stabbed than having a wank in bongland
absolutely lemao
Anonymous No.719870630
I don't :)
Our ISPs don't give a fuck about anything :)
Anonymous No.719870967 >>719871090
>>719869341 (OP)
this will reignite the piracy and I have never left the open seas
Anonymous No.719871090 >>719871235
>>719870967
oh yes million will now pirate discord
Anonymous No.719871235 >>719871353 >>719871409 >>719885678
>>719871090
no you stupid fucking zoomer moron- you and your brainrottted clones will learn that there are better places than discord, maybe even realize that IRC is still the King and stop playing fortnites, robloxes and other brainrotting shit
Anonymous No.719871353 >>719871534
>>719871235
you sound like 12 year old having some sort of temper tantrum
Anonymous No.719871409 >>719871534
>>719871235
Normalfags would rather give up their privacy entirely and give every single corporation their personal data than to have to use something that isn't mainstream.
Anonymous No.719871534
>>719871353
Yes, sure I do, because average 12 year old today hates roblox, fortnite and promotes piracy and use of IRC
>>719871409
true, sad but true
Anonymous No.719871775 >>719882597
as someone who makes 1000 alts in every game this will be devastating because they will definitely prevent an id from making multiple accounts
also if you get banned youre just fucked forever
i probably kys myself
Anonymous No.719871854 >>719872412 >>719872579 >>719874159 >>719874683 >>719894479
whats preventing me to just use a picture of some random ID i found on the internet?
Anonymous No.719872412 >>719874159
>>719871854
Nothing.
That's how so many people have been using to get around it.
It's a half assed system
Anonymous No.719872510 >>719872726 >>719894340
>>719869532
unironically yes
Id literally LET hitler into the country at this point, it would be better for everyone.
Anonymous No.719872579 >>719879482 >>719880232 >>719880606
>>719871854
some have managed to fix that exploit already, and will detect fakes
I used kier starmers face on a fake ID to get onto porn sites, but then later on it told me to reverify and it failed

kek, kier has been up to all sorts of shit
Anonymous No.719872726 >>719872772
I'm gonna have to install Death Stranding again just to get around this shit one day.

>>719872510
Hitler would just ban porn and hentai entirely.
Anonymous No.719872772 >>719872857
>>719872726
itd be a laugh, though.
Anonymous No.719872857 >>719872984 >>719872986 >>719873361
>>719872772
For sure and in the grand scheme he'd be much more preferred but we're stuck with globalist commies.
Anonymous No.719872984 >>719873052
>>719872857
>but we're stuck with globalist commies.
it's a shame they're literally invincible, as no one has tried to simply kill them.
Anonymous No.719872986 >>719894340
>>719872857
wait til they find out herr starmer has been browsing BBCuckoldry day in day out
Anonymous No.719873052 >>719873264
>>719872984
itd just make them a martyr, and give their cohorts ammo to triple down on surveilance, control and censorship

better to just keep voting for whoever steps in the other direction and playing the long game. They never last forever, countervotes will eventually outpace them.
Anonymous No.719873264 >>719873648
>>719873052
Brother they have been playing the long game for at least a little over a century. The long game is nearly up, full surveillance, digital ID and CBDC is right around the corner.
Anonymous No.719873361 >>719873906
>>719872857
Nigga the world is run by billionaires not commies
Anonymous No.719873648 >>719881023
>>719873264
I know but the last century has been "their side" and "their side +1"
these things come and go, it will probably get worse before it gets better, but historically this always happens.
As they get more extreme, so do the counter to them. People will suffer with online ID for a while before someone comes along and says "fuck this, fuck them, fuck them all"
history often repeats itself on this stuff.

you couldnt vote for these people back then because "theyre racist far WHRITE nazis!"
but now people are getting so fed up with it all, they dont care, the strategy of the last decade is starting to fail them, people WANT that right winger to come in and fuck it up.

as they push harder and harder to extremity, the more willing people are to vote against it.
look at reform today vs UKIP back then, or whatever.
Reform will probably half heartedly do what they are saying, but itd set the precedent, the ball rolling, people will want to win more, and they will vote for an even more extreme party when they see reform isnt going hard enough.
Then it will be our decade, a decade of "our side" and "our side +1"

digital ID, gone
OSA, gone
Ofcom, deleted
Their members, fired
Police chiefs, in prison
Judges, in prison
laws put in place to GUARANTEE it never happens again.

weather the storm, we will win.
Anonymous No.719873906
>>719873361
They all push for globalism, which the end goal of it is global communism.
Anonymous No.719874093
>>719869341 (OP)
If it's wrong for a child, then it's wrong for an adult.
The real issue here is that they're basically saying you can only do this evil thing if you have an ID, instead of just completely dealing/getting rid of the evil thing.
Hopefully they'll go further than this, and completely ban ALL evils(porn, violence in games, alcohol, etc.).
Anonymous No.719874159
>>719871854
>>719872412
here guys
Anonymous No.719874683 >>719875313 >>719876132 >>719882840 >>719883074 >>719894665
>>719871854
Every time you bypass the system a child gets hurt. Are you such a monster?
Anonymous No.719875313 >>719886091
>>719874683
this is because parents are doing a shit job at monitoring their kids
Anonymous No.719876028 >>719885193
Just neuter every criminal. That would keep far more kids safe. Criminals are far more likely to abuse kids and having one is their easiest way to access them. We need to shut down this easy gateway for child abuse.
Anonymous No.719876074
>>719869532
The sooner we become a 51st state, the better.
Anonymous No.719876132 >>719883198
>>719874683
the UK is a complete shithole i hope Trump or Putin nuke them
Anonymous No.719876346 >>719876741
>>719869341 (OP)
We tried to warn you about puritans, you didn't listen.
Anonymous No.719876386
>>719870230
how much oil do you have?
Anonymous No.719876741
>>719876346
>Thinks the people pushing for this are puritans, or even have a moral code to begin with
NGMI
Anonymous No.719879028
>>719870523
Not only that. But its illegal to complain to the ZOGolice about being stabbed
Anonymous No.719879482
>>719872579
>some have managed to fix that exploit already, and will detect fakes
Just have to generate better fakes using AI. The future of the internet is AI just interacting with other AI.
Anonymous No.719880232
>>719872579
>but then later on it told me to reverify
wait doesn't that mean they definitely kept the ID on file?
or do you have to submit an ID every time you visit the site?
Anonymous No.719880606 >>719885541
>>719872579
Why would they ask ID again? We should force sterilize all parents who don't use parental control chirurgically.
Anonymous No.719881023
>>719873648
Also
White only voting
White only benefits + social housing

This way we prevent all incentives for Third Worlders to come over.
Anonymous No.719881093
you don't have o verify your age to touch grass though
Anonymous No.719881321
Most of the UK is now under fascism, yet you bongs complain about america constantly instead.
Anonymous No.719881587
>>719869341 (OP)
good
i don't want my son trooning out from getting groomed by a hentai game loving tranime slop eating troon on discord
if you're under 18 you should not be allowed on the internet
Anonymous No.719881650 >>719882086
>>719869341 (OP)
>you have to prove you're an adult to play adult games
WHAT IS THIS MANMADE HORROR BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION!!!
Anonymous No.719882086 >>719882567
>>719881650
You have to give your ID to a company that will blackmail or get you jailed once they know what you masturbate to. In the UK 90% anime porn is illegal and get you jailed for years.
Anonymous No.719882394
>>719869341 (OP)
I will never upload my fave scan or ID to any website verification. You do not need my personal biometrics nor my legal government ID. I should not have to sacrifice my online privacy for the government to do the parent's jobs of raising their kids. We have all grown up in a world with the internet, between router settings, parent blocks on phones and browsers, and individual phone settings with ISPs there are indeed ways to monitor and control your childrens' online traffic. I do not welcome legislation or policy coercing me into sacrificing that, and at no point has "protecting the children" ever been a good faith argument; they want control, and they want a direct line to your online web traffic to your person. See how the UK only had the OSA functioning for a week before police task forces started knocking onto people's doors for comments they made online. Even if you won't be arrested, your attitude and behavior will be controlled knowing you are being watched just like a school child on the playground.
Fault for lying about the age of the user and therefor the validity of the consent being moot should fall unto the user, which in this case would teickle up to the parent or guardian for a child, not the website. It is not the website's fault for your child lying.
Never give your ID to view something or buy something online. Aquiring alcohol or drugs is one thing, but not to look up relevant global news like war coverage, that is age gating as fuck. Do not give up what little privacy you have online for this shit. Let Youtube, Discord, and even Steam rot before subcoming to thwir insane demands. The governments and corporations move in lock step with the masses, if we push the tides one way then they have no choice but to respond instead of continuing to push the flow of civil liberties the way they want to.
Anonymous No.719882496 >>719882586
>>719870280
Well, not for long unless we do something about it.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1623
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/737/text
Anonymous No.719882567 >>719883960 >>719884201
>>719882086
Maybe try jerking off to anime porn that DOESN'T feature underage girls
Anonymous No.719882586 >>719882797
>>719882496
He said "real democratic" country not a jewish owned economic zone.
Anonymous No.719882597
>>719871775
>buy game
>$80 dollars + taxes and fees spent
>ID compromised
>say word
>game revoked
>police at door asking you to come to the department "for a chat"
Anonymous No.719882680
>>719870280
>>719870342
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/pornography-age-verification-laws-what-they-are-and-which-states-have-them/
Anonymous No.719882797
>>719882586
So he was being serious? Such a place actually exists? Where is this El Dorado, this Atlantis? I need me an exit strategy.
Anonymous No.719882840
>>719874683
Do you think a time will exist where vids like this will be in the (future equivalent of) textbooks? Reading straight off a script espousing parody-tier reasoning
Anonymous No.719883074
>>719874683
https://youtu.be/R5egttiMfKo
Anonymous No.719883198
>>719876132
Why not both?
Anonymous No.719883493 >>719883915 >>719883941 >>719884456 >>719884582 >>719885614
Apparently bongs need a little chastity cage for their windows and can't open them. If you open a window without a loicense, expect bobbies at your door.
Anonymous No.719883571
>>719869341 (OP)
not on steam, they still just ask for a credit card (also shit, probably worse if you think about it).
Anonymous No.719883593 >>719883743
Age verification is one thing but I feel like we're heading towards a de-smutification of the Internet and content entirely.
Anonymous No.719883743
>>719883593
The payment processors certsinly do want to tell you what is and isnt acceptable to buy, sell, trade, or lease, they want to define "artistic merit" in one breath and tell you they aren't censoring art the next.
Anonymous No.719883745 >>719883991 >>719891495
>2000s internet: never say your name or use any identifying factors, you never know what creeps are at the other side
>2020s internet: post your picture and give us your real name, trust us we will keep it a secret
kek
Anonymous No.719883915
>>719883493
wat
Anonymous No.719883941
>>719883493
>It's real
Anonymous No.719883960
>>719882567
If the anime porn is too "hardcore" it's illegal in UK. Feet? Illegal. Anal? Illegal. Everything is illegal in your retarded country
Anonymous No.719883991
>>719883745
it's not funny, it's fuckin depressing
Anonymous No.719884201
>>719882567
>anime porn that DOESN'T feature underage girls
You say that as if there isn't some pearl clutching cunt out there that won't bullshit some arbitrary excuse to declare anything short of the wrinkliest anime grandma underage
Anonymous No.719884456
>>719883493
Gotta make sure there's no escape routes for Susan and her kids when Achmed breaks in lmao holy shit
Anonymous No.719884476 >>719885337
>Got a license for that kite?
Anonymous No.719884502
>>719869341 (OP)
I pirate all H games.=D
Anonymous No.719884582 >>719889741
>>719883493
they're to stop kids opening the window and falling out but yes its quite cucked but we do need all the white kids we can get
Anonymous No.719885193 >>719885465
>>719876028
Better solution, arrest everyone, if everyone is in prosecuted then 100% of criminals are in prison and thus no crime.
Anonymous No.719885337
>>719884476
None of these apply to brown people
Anonymous No.719885465
>>719885193
Why turn prison into a society when you could turn society into a prison?
Anonymous No.719885541 >>719888251
>>719880606
Because they want to link your online activity directly to you without needing a legal warrent. They also like building profiles on people regardless of how illegal their activities are. Monitor and control.
Anonymous No.719885614 >>719885727
>>719883493
I cannot find an American hotel or apartment conplex that actually lwts you open windows all the way and doesn't posses a screen if you can open it. It's fucked.
Anonymous No.719885678 >>719886316
>>719871235
Huh???? You realize they'll simply get tech savvy enough to bypass the controls and nothing will change other than zoomers now have tools for deceit?
Anonymous No.719885727
>>719885614
>he doesn't like screens

enjoy your mosquitos and wasps
Anonymous No.719885921
>>719870280
>real democratic country
>USA
lmao
Anonymous No.719885990
>>719869341 (OP)
Amerilard-lads?
W-where is your s-so called freedom?
Anonymous No.719886091 >>719886169
>>719875313
No it's because everyone knows seeing a tiddy isn't gonna break a kid's brain so parents don't really police it.
Anonymous No.719886169 >>719886347 >>719887346
>>719886091
Seeing on-demand tiddy on a screen every single day since you're 5 is absolutely going to break your brain. Don't even pretend otherwise.
Anonymous No.719886316
>>719885678
They? You mean YOU.
YOU will not get "tech savvy" at all. YOU will no bypass it and YOU WILL comply like YOU are doing for the last 15 years.
Anonymous No.719886347
>>719886169
5 year olds don't even care about tiddies they are just socialized to know it's taboo
Anonymous No.719886446
>>719869532
We can help you but first you need to accept to be conquered by us.
Anonymous No.719887346
>>719886169
Why does your 5 year old have constant access to tiddies? Are you just letting them do ehatever on a phone or computer? I understand Elsagate complicating things, but if I saw my kid playing Elsa Preggo Simulator I'd take the pgone away and say "no more Girls Go Games" or whatever site they are on.
Anonymous No.719888115 >>719888831
You guys aren't just going to take the world rolling over you laying down, are you?
Anonymous No.719888251
>>719885541
Hence why I advocate to sterilize parents instead.
Anonymous No.719888343 >>719889961
>to download the mod join the discord
KILL. YOUR. FUCKING. SELF.
Anonymous No.719888831
>>719888115
They will, like always. So will the rest of the west, nothing ever happens.
Anonymous No.719889741 >>719890341
>>719884582
>fire kills the whole family instead
oops
Anonymous No.719889935 >>719891020 >>719893684
>>719869341 (OP)
I feel bad for you, eurobros...
Anonymous No.719889961
>>719888343
VERIFY. YOUR. FUCKING. AGE. GO- GAMER.
Anonymous No.719890341 >>719894145
>>719889741
>don't be a spastic
>smoke alarm
>key to unlock the window lock
there are ways to not die you must be horrible at video games with your logic
Anonymous No.719890721 >>719891239 >>719893789
>dude why arent you using Google services and refuse to throw all your data to each and every service that asks you to do so? Are you hiding something? You privacy people are so weird. If you dont do anything wrong you dont have anything to hide.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY DO WE HAVE TO VERIFY OUR AGE NOW HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY HAPPEN? WHAT ABOUT OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
All you retards deserve this shit.
Anonymous No.719890792 >>719890958
>>719869341 (OP)
How did California become a bastion of free speech, bodily autonomy, and gun rights?
Anonymous No.719890958 >>719891095
>>719890792
Because repubs never stood for any of those things, and you're a fucking sucker if you thought they did.
Trump passed more anti-gun and anti-porn legislation in a single term than Obama did in a full eight years.
Anonymous No.719891020 >>719898343
>>719889935
UK isn't Eu anymore but you can bet your ass they'll extend such retarded thing to anyone at this point, same for USA too.
Anonymous No.719891048
i let my child use the porn machine unsupervised and THEY SAW A PORN
VISAAAAAAAAAAA
Anonymous No.719891095
>>719890958
Obama era is when CC companies were ordered to start interfering with customer purchases, both sides are involved since everyone rich still needs the serfs to make the nice things they buy
Anonymous No.719891239
>>719890721
Why do we have to use Google? The internet works fine with other services. Do you fear the open source?
Anonymous No.719891495
>>719883745
Delete this
Anonymous No.719892274 >>719892618 >>719893393
>>719869532
They voted for this.
Anonymous No.719892618 >>719895207
>>719892274
Thats actually the crazy part, they didn't. The administration bumrushed this through Parliament. They knew the public would be disgusted with this so they tried to do it quietly.
I don't know if the UK has the same standard for petitions discussed in Parliament as the EU does in being taken seriously, but a petition to revoke the OSA was immediately shut down by the administration, stating they were not going to reverse the decision regardless of the public's feelings.
Anonymous No.719893393
>>719892274
>The voted for it
>They in fact didn't vote for it
Anonymous No.719893485 >>719893697 >>719893736 >>719893880 >>719894080
None of this makes any sense to me. Why would the UK implement these ID laws for surveillance purposes when it's well established that the NSA collects every morsel of internet data out there, and under the Five Eyes agreement, the US shares the data with the UK (and vice versa)?

Why is any of this even public when (((they))) obviously own and operate every media establishment, mainstream and even most independent/internet? Why wouldn't they implement their own NSA datacenter vacuums and just tell no one? What purpose does it serve to outrage the world?

Unless... it's all a distraction from inflation, economic bubbles and collapse, banks and investors grabbing up farmland, etc?
Anonymous No.719893684 >>719898343
>>719889935
I can see it just fine and I'm in the EU.
Anonymous No.719893697 >>719895632
>>719893485
Teh world is ending and they're cracking down and increasing censorship and control
Anonymous No.719893736 >>719895632
>>719893485
It is about digital borders anon, every country wants to have internet echo chamber they can control.
Anonymous No.719893789 >>719894079 >>719894167
>>719890721
I'm just going to use third party services that can do the age verification for me using generated identities. Legally they cannot do anything to stop me as this is not for financial matters but for access to online features. It's no different from introducing yourself as Bob in a casual conversation with a stranger when your real name is Joe.
Anonymous No.719893880 >>719895632 >>719896594
>>719893485
To put it shortly, It's a humiliation ritual. It's not enough for them to watch you, they want you to know you are being watched. Being spied upon and being actively demoralized from the no-no think by CITY-17 tier surveillance are very different things that work towards different matters.
Anonymous No.719894079
>>719893789
They will crack down on those given time
Anonymous No.719894080 >>719895632
>>719893485
Instead of asking the Americans nicely for it they just would rsther have that dats themselves.
Anonymous No.719894145
>>719890341
yeah, the smoke alarm will stop the fire, of course, if it beeps that mean the fire will stop spreading that make total sense, idiot.
at least your other points make sense so i won't just call you a retard but you are close to it.
Anonymous No.719894167
>>719893789
Don't even give them those, the only thing you should give them is the middle finger. Why use services that encroach on your privacy like this?
Anonymous No.719894340
>>719872510
>>719872986
>t. sore ww2 losers
Anonymous No.719894349
is it time to go on a 4th crusade to hack and slash those pesky you know?
Anonymous No.719894479
>>719871854
>random ID i found on the internet
fraud and identity theft are illegal
all it takes is one subpoena and they've got you by the balls
Anonymous No.719894665 >>719894952
>>719874683
>K-KEEP THE CHILDRUNZ SAFE
meanwhile every time you scan your face or ID, a hacker gets a payday, the guvmint gets yet another sucker added to the list to persecute for wrongthink, and advertisers earn at least an extra buck off you
Anonymous No.719894952
>>719894665
This.
Anonymous No.719895207
>>719892618
This. Not a single party ran with this in their manifestos (not that anybody actually reads those or takes them seriously) for either the 2019 or 2024 elections. Nobody voted for it except for the Tory MPs in 2023 and Labour MPs in 2024.
Anonymous No.719895632 >>719896381 >>719896594 >>719897337
>>719893697
They already have the ability to shut down websites on a whim through ISP orders, or more indirectly using Cloudflare, or just outright yanking their servers in a black op.
>>719893736
I don't buy that. The British bankers who run the UK using Parliament puppets are the same people running the Federal Reserve and the IMF and every other national or private bank. They're all cousins who have no reason to compete in a totally rigged system.
>>719894080
Tavistock, MI6 and the CIA have been partners from the beginning though. They're effectively one and the same entity. And the people they work for are all related to each other.
>>719893880
>they want you to know you are being watched
I'd accept the humiliation ritual argument only if Edward Snowden wasn't well known. The only people unaware of his leaks are early Gen Z/alphas who were barely alive at the time. Otherwise everyone in the western hemisphere has heard of him and Prism and that it has been ongoing since the dawn of the internet. It was mainstream news coverage for at least a few months and the only people ignorant were tiny children or the Amish. Whether someone took it seriously or not doesn't matter, they still know they're being spied on.
Anonymous No.719896381 >>719898509
>>719895632
>Tavistock, MI6 and the CIA have been partners from the beginning though. They're effectively one and the same entity. And the people they work for are all related to each other.
Sure but what happens if America stops being friends with them? China is already tickling the US's asshole and yet we're one of the only countries not using Huawei for national telecom services, bad Opsec doesn't mean govs don't want contingency plans for if things go south.
Anonymous No.719896554 >>719897302
>>719869341 (OP)
>Verify age with ID or image of yourself
>"We're rolling out face recognition vans."
>Go to the mall like usual.
>A week passed
>Police knocks on your door.
>They start taking all my electronics. Won't say what it's for yet.
It happened to me britbros... I don't know what they're looking for yet, but I'm scared...
Anonymous No.719896594 >>719897482 >>719897528
>>719893880
>>719895632
Unironically what's the problem with being spied by the government?

I am no criminal, and I wont be mistaken for one since my every step is being watch by my elected representatives.
Anonymous No.719897302
>>719896554
What do the police who "ask to take you down to the station for a chat" do or say?
Anonymous No.719897337 >>719897915 >>719898509
>>719895632
Digital borders isn't about competing, it is about manufacturing appropriate context for normalfags to consume. When you can directly police how news are told and what mood they invoke while simultaneously kneecapping any non state approved media outlets it become very easy to mold population into whatever you want. Internet as we know it was a huge mistake for the governments globally, they are finally getting down to putting things as they were before it.
Anonymous No.719897482 >>719897576 >>719897723
>>719896594
Go ahead and give me the logs to all your text messages and discord PMs. If you don't want to, regardless of reasoning, you desire privacy like any other being and you don't need to assert a reason to want it just to have it.
Anonymous No.719897528
>>719896594
Lame attempt
Anonymous No.719897576
>>719897482
I dont need to, my responsible government already does it for me and (You).
Anonymous No.719897723
>>719897482
Except you are not the government anon, unless you are glowie, but if you are glowie you already have them.
Anonymous No.719897915
>>719897337
This.
>we aren't destroying content, we are simply creating context.
https://youtu.be/C31XYgr8gp0
Anonymous No.719898343
>>719893684
>>719891020
he said euro, not EU
Anonymous No.719898509
>>719896381
I don't have the link on hand right now but the people actually running China are the same ones running the IMF and global banking. Superpower rivalries are just a show to keep people off the trail of the banking masters. -isms are also a red herring, ideologies have always been masks for more sinister, embedded power structures.
>>719897337
Look into Operation Mockingbird or read about Hearst's media empire. The news has been compromised since at least that long. Most newspaper rags have been propaganda fronts since the printing press but at least occasionally reported something real and impactful. I presume the UK is the same with MI6 and whoever was a royal spy, dating back to Dee and Bacon.
>You don’t need to manipulate TIME magazine, for example, because there are Agency people at the
management level
William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer
>The Central Intelligence Agency owns
everyone of any significance in the major media
William Colby, the head of the CIA from 1973-76
If they controlled the mainstream press then, they control it now, as well as "indie" fronts like popular bloggers, youtubers, and streamers (see Night Media as one glaring example). The reason they revealed it then was because it lended credibility to sleeper agents working undercover as "dissidents".

The UK has no need to consolidate their control over media outlets. It has been this way for decades if not longer. So again, the only thing that makes any sense is either 1) humiliation ritual like anon above said, or 2) a big distraction from economic rape.