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The apps would be delisted in the UK app stores and will eventually stop working for existing users when not updated. That's also a security issue in itself.
It'll be a matter of installing the app "from unknown source" then?
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As far as the Patriot Act, when Max Cleland came out against it, the Republicans claimed he “didn’t love his country”. Cleland lost three limbs in Vietnam. None of his opponents had ever served.
The only senator who voted against the Patriot Act was Russ Feingold. >...On October 25, the Act passed the Senate with a vote of 98–1. Russ Feingold (D-WI) voted "no" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#:~:text=The%20thre... .
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38201636/max...
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The UK public are extremely conservative, and extremely misinformed by conservative news sources. That's at the root of a lot of the demand for authoritarianism.
Starmer et al. aren't any less authoritarian than the Tories.
Labour are the party who passed that very nasty "Tell us your password or go to prison" law under "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide from law enforcement or the government." mentality.
Red Tories are still Tories.
This leaves the Lib Dems, who sadly have zero interest in repealing the Online Safety Bill if it passes.
I've personally never used Tor, but the moment this bill goes live, I'll be setting up Whonix in a VM on Linux OS.
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I'm not going to read that. Unless you're the opinion columnist for USA today? Cause I asked you about your opinion.
Is it an “opinion” that Elon Musk blocked links to Mastadon and the account that was tracking his plane using publicly available information? Or do you just refuse to read anything that contradicts your world view?
I'm sure I deserved that for asking your opinion.
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Is it an “opinion” that Elon Musk blocked links to Mastadon and the account that was tracking his plane using publicly available information? Or do you just refuse to read anything that contradicts your world view?
And we're into ad hominem attacks. I'm sure I deserved that for asking your opinion.
That’s an easily verifiable fact that you could have found out about just by reading the link you refused to read.
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The public have been sold a lie. Just like the “Patriot Act” was just to keep everybody free and protect people from terrorists. It happens everywhere, and has been happening for a long time - it’s more about the narrative made up by the people pushing a law than what the law actually does. It would take a particularly free, particularly good media to inform the public that just doesn’t exist in most of the world.
> The public have been sold a lie. Just like the “Patriot Act” was just to keep everybody free and protect people from terrorists. The public tend to believe what they've been informed and the press tend to be inept when it comes to Gov surveillance. The history of editors and journalists is 1) they reprint Gov Natsec claims w/o analysis or a single thought about Gov's history and 2) will only report surveillance wro…
As I understand it, most UK public are in favour of this bill almost Pavlovianly. There is a clear disconnect between us, the tech know-how, and the general public.
You much overestimate how politically involved the UK public is. Most people don’t know what this bill is. In the UK there’s a concept of the “Westminster bubble”. Politicians believe that people care deeply about “online safety”, which is all that matters really.
As I understand it, most UK public are in favour of this bill almost Pavlovianly. There is a clear disconnect between us, the tech know-how, and the general public.
The public have been sold a lie. Just like the “Patriot Act” was just to keep everybody free and protect people from terrorists. It happens everywhere, and has been happening for a long time - it’s more about the narrative made up by the people pushing a law than what the law actually does. It would take a particularly free, particularly good media to inform the public that just doesn’t exist in most of the world.
The people are always sold a lie. But in a democracy, it is the responsibility of the voter to identify when they are being lied to and to search for the truth.
As much as you claim that media isn’t free and isn’t good, I look around and see the opposite. Now is the best time in the history of the world to get amazing journalism. You are just too focused on the media you dislike to admit that with selection comes lots of terrible choices.