81–90 of 160 posts
Meanwhile, Sunak is celebrating himself with a nauseating propaganda video: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1660560546465193984 Look how clean and groomed our dear leaders are while they are surveilling the population and ruin the economy. Whatever it takes!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly the reject all became widespread as companies switched over to negating it by hiding "legitimate interest" toggles in multiple sublevels of expandables.
That used to work when it was just the cookie law, it doesn't work any longer. It must be "as easy" to opt in as it is to opt out, because of this dark pattern specifically.
This kind of thing was always my biggest worry going into Brexit. The country has to reimplement a ton of regulation and you know the government and its various hangers on won’t be able to resist “tweaking” every law and regulation to better favour them. Workers rights, human rights… it’s all up for negotiation now. By people who aren’t listening to you.
Could have been a great opportunity to try to actually improve things rather than adding loopholes for the benefit of special interests. Maybe with the right people in power that could still be achieved, but seems unlikely.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could have been a great opportunity to try to actually improve things rather than adding loopholes for the benefit of special interests. Maybe with the right people in power that could still be achieved, but seems unlikely.
I don’t know, you’re talking about a surveillance-crazy culture, I don’t see them shying away from facial recognition.
Even when it's legally dubious we'll do our damnedest to look like we're surveilling the ** out of you.
Meanwhile, Sunak is celebrating himself with a nauseating propaganda video: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1660560546465193984 Look how clean and groomed our dear leaders are while they are surveilling the population and ruin the economy. Whatever it takes!
Meanwhile, Sunak is celebrating himself with a nauseating propaganda video: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1660560546465193984 Look how clean and groomed our dear leaders are while they are surveilling the population and ruin the economy. Whatever it takes!
Returning back to the OT of surveillance and oversight, and as you're making this into a partisan issue, what would Labour do differently? "Authoritarian" concerns were expressed last time Labour was in government [1], and they're "seriously considering" resurrecting their policy of mandatory id cards if they get in power again [2]. And, before I get smeared as a "Tory"/"Brexiteer", I am not - I'm someone who remembe…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UK isn't even scrapping the "bendy banana" law https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bendy-bananas-brexit-uk-e...
The EU never banned bananas based on shape. It’s a myth
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/11/boris-johns...
I always thought "journalists" whipping up outage over something the regulated industry requested(!) should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. This kind of "reporting" was probably a contributing factor in anti-EU sentiment and ultimately Brexit.
Meanwhile, Sunak is celebrating himself with a nauseating propaganda video: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1660560546465193984 Look how clean and groomed our dear leaders are while they are surveilling the population and ruin the economy. Whatever it takes!
Returning back to the OT of surveillance and oversight, and as you're making this into a partisan issue, what would Labour do differently? "Authoritarian" concerns were expressed last time Labour was in government [1], and they're "seriously considering" resurrecting their policy of mandatory id cards if they get in power again [2]. And, before I get smeared as a "Tory"/"Brexiteer", I am not - I'm someone who remembe…
That said I do think the Tories have taken it to the n-th degree recently, though. It's unlikely that Labour would introduce new bills that are quite as heavy handed as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 but I imagine they're unlikely to unwind what is currently there now.
This kind of thing was always my biggest worry going into Brexit. The country has to reimplement a ton of regulation and you know the government and its various hangers on won’t be able to resist “tweaking” every law and regulation to better favour them. Workers rights, human rights… it’s all up for negotiation now. By people who aren’t listening to you.
the regulation is a joke anyway, so why pretend? same with gdpr and the so called online privacy. it’s all smoke and mirrors with an added serving of mixed anti-americanism and european protectionism. they should remove everything from the books until these things have heft. and if they can’t come up with something serious, why legislate in the first place? just for populism’s sake? (eg UK’s online safety bill)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What have the R̶o̶m̶a̶n̶s̶ EU ever done for us?
The single market? What? The single market. Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah. And the peace funds. Oh, yeah, the peace funds, Reg. Remember what Northern Ireland used to be like? Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the single market and the peace funds are two things that the EU have done. And the Erasmus programme. Well, yeah. Obviously the Erasmus programme. I mean, that goes without saying,…