What are they so afraid of?
They have an entrenched belief that they can head off the inevitable boogaloo by simply gaslighting hard enough and ensuring tight enough message control. Nudge theory, which is the instigator of
things like this, posits that that people can be steered in the directions the government wants them to go through message control, social conditioning, and cultural reinforcement. They believe, wholeheartedly, that people will do exactly what they want them to so long as they control all the messaging and framing. Use social shaming to influencers to control how the plebs react to things, and steer them in the direction the government wants.
The thing is: Nudge theory does not work. It never has. The entire thing stems from the hard-left belief that
seeing something gives it power, so by removing it from sight, you remove it from mind. They believe - legitimately - that if they had message controlled enough, if they had cracked down hard enough, and effectively made going against them illegal in everything but name, they would have won by default, since they will have removed all other options from your sight, and ergo the only way you
could come to such despicable beliefs would be people showing you them online. This, obviously, is fucking retarded, and ironically, counter to oldschool lefty beliefs - which maintain that sunlight is the best disinfectant and the best way to counter extremism is that by letting it exist in the open where everyone's free to laugh and point at it.
The thing is, hard lefties are utterly unable to stomach points of view that aren't their own, and even allowing tangential dissent is something that can't be allowed. So they push for things like shutting it down, thinking if they can just take it away, no one will ever take a position that is not the pre-prepared one. Which is also why they were utterly unprepared for when the first details of Rotherham went public, it's why riots like Epping caught them napping, and why they were in a scramble to do anything they could to get out of it once the UK voted for Brexit - the plebs were not supposed to have that power, let alone flex it, and obviously, the only way they could have come to the decision to do that was the evil elements online poisoning their mind with that pesky "reality" shit.
But as we all know, that is not how things work. The very thing pushing people to the margins
is the government demanding their complete compliance while actively fucking them. Putting it differently, the EU will eventually go hot, no matter how hard the powers that be crack down on dissent, because their imported pet demographics will never stop escalating, and in so doing, continually pushing the issue further and further, and by taking peaceful resolution of the problem off the table - indeed, trying to deny the problem even
exists - they are, by definition, making it so that inevitably, it will be violence that wins the day - something for which the government is hilariously unprepared. They think that they can forestall the inevitable, still acting like they can top-down mandate human behavior, but increasingly, it's working less and less, and the Europeans inch closer to the inevitable cook-off by the day. Smart money's on Ireland being the first to kick off, but considering the shit we have the migrants doing now, we just need to wait and the next riot could conceivably be anywhere.
And on this, OFCOM needs to take some notes, because I'm going to give them a hand a moment: no government, no matter how totalitarian, vindictive, or petty, will ever have full control of its people. Even the CCP, with all its top-down surveillance, control, and Social Credit System, cannot keep full control of the populace. Shit like tofu dreg construction, exploding Chinese EVs, the Uygur Genocide, the ecological collapse of parts of mainland China, Qingdao being lit up like an overpriced Alienware rig while the blaring lights are still unable to cut through the city's omnipresent smog - news of all that shit made it to the west despite every attempt to quash it by a country for whom armed suppression was absolutely on the table and got used repeatedly, and whose government was capable of abuses infinitely more heinous. Your failure is inevitable, and when it inevitably happens, we will be mocking you the entire time.