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"I'm not sure what counter-terror objective blocking this game actually has."

This, plus, what authority does Counter Terrorism Command over commercial enterprise in the UK?

Can any police force in the UK just arbitrarily block things for sale?

The article provides the CT comment:

"The CTIRU works closely with a range of technology, social media and online service providers, but we do not comment on specific content or any communication we may have with specific platforms or providers."

But nowhere do they state an actual law being broken, or law under which CT command can block things for sale.

I'm not a lawyer, so maybe this one is obvious, but this looks like authoritarian overreach.






Sadly, authoritarian overreach is the state of the affairs in the UK. Recent "coconut" incident that got wide publicity:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwew5v4qyo




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