what do the other people do when confronted with the censorship regime ?

Realistically, we still have pubs, not as many as we did - plenty of people still meet and talk directly. Obviously saying things online these days can easily illicit a response from plod, but pretty generally you've got to be interacting with leftists to get reported, so it's not too difficult to simply ignore them most of the time.

spelling is proper, innit geezer.