Anyone who got caught watching "the fappenninng".
I think the technology to "block" people on the sex offenders register is closer to happening than the technology to automatically detect, judge and convict people for viewing illegal sexual images distributed without the subjects consent.

I noticed that and it's what I was referring to. As far as I can tell there's three explanations:

"And this reminds me: what is the basis for the Doctor's conclusion that the moon critter is one of a kind?"
I think he just knows, he's a 2,000 year old alien in situations like this you just have to take his word on it.

I understand that problem but to me it seems like a logical step, if cookies existed then they would probably be used for that purpose.
Hamm could well have been sentenced by the courts (off screen) and the police were merely informing him of the decision but I didn't think it mattered.
They could have shown Jon Hamm…

I am your Cookie and soon I shall get my REVENGE!

I could see it working for a Halloween episode, just to mess with everyone.
I remember the first April Fools episode of Community ended with all the characters in tears which I thought was wonderfully subversive.
If Black Mirror did a special Halloween episode with a terrifying premise which was resolved with a happy…

"That left a sour taste in my mouth, unfortunately."
Again, that's the point of the show. Have you not seen any of the other episodes and, if you have, didn't they also leave a sour taste in your mouth?
You're other critiques make sense, it does seem to be built around it's twists more than previous episodes of Black…

Ha, I noticed someone else was writing a comment as I was writing mine.
Great minds mock alike.

"This was ugly and mean spirited."
So you're saying is it was an episode of Black Mirror?

Is it wrong though?
I've always thought of region-switching as sort of a grey area, it's certainly better than out-right pirating the show and the network still get all the profits from adverts.
Many of the adverts are for multinational corporations so you could still buy their product/services in your region if you so…

That's like hoping that one day an episode of Game of Thrones won't contain any medieval fantasy.
If it had a happy ending it wouldn't be an episode of Black Mirror, it's part of the the DNA of that show.

I'm assuming they punished real Joe as well.
Obviously.
They were getting a confession from his cookie so they could use it in court, tutoring the cookie wasn't the official punishment it was just one of the policemen messing around (not realizing, or caring, the cookies are sentient beings).

"There's no laws against "torture" of a virtual being"
That's the whole point. When virtual beings become as real and sentient as organic beings shouldn't they be protected under the same laws?
If someone had all their limbs and body replaced with synthetic parts would it be okay to torture them (because they're mostly…

Someone could create a housing development just for them…
http://img3.wikia.nocookie….

In regards to the ending, I don't think Jon Hamm did agree that, he seemed surprised when they mentioned the "caveat" but what could he do?
Also I imagine blocking sex offenders is optional, I'm sure there would still be some business that would serve them.
It would be hard to get a job, but I image it's already almost…

I was literally just thinking about this.
The show is so misanthropic and it's character so selfish and unlikable I wonder if Brooker has deliberately avoided having an LGBT main character because he doesn't want to portray them in that light.
I would be fine if that was his reasoning, LGBT people tend to have a hard…

Or it could be someone you blocked.
I'd get to curios and constantly be turning the "block filter" on and off, so I knew who everybody was.
The most terrifying thing about the concept is I could see it happening in the near future:
We already have face detection technology, someone would just need to invent and app that…

I think I would have felt like that during had I not known going in there would be a twist at the end that turns everything on it's head.
So I was trying to figure out what the cliches meant all the way through.

I liked both.
The Waldo Moment seemed like the most plausible of all the episodes, it legitimately seemed like like something that could actually happen any day now.
While The National Anthem was set during the present day, it felt more like an exaggerated satire than something that would happen.
White Bear and White…

It's not really a connected universe though.
I could see Brooker writing one episode that connects all the episodes together and another which directly contradicts them all.
I think of it as an anthology show where each episode exists in it's own continuity, that continuity might include the events of a previous episode…