UK gov seems intent to establish a surveillance state :(
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Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach
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#172The encryption debate is the same as the gun debate. The tools are politicized because it's the easy thing for lawmakers to make it look like they're taking action. As the report warns, the deployed laws have negative consequences.
Outlaw all guns and make end-to-end encryption illegal doesn't stop GRU dropping novichok perfume bottles around england.
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#173anybody can buy esim on street(ask llm how to do so) for cash or crypto. anybody can randomly talk on random webrtc domain or use random delta chat email to text. if somebody really has high income(and high risk) illegal scheme he will not use signal for very bad things. more, llm can tell exactly do things outlined above. so chat control is for small(small income) crime and control of ordinary citizens behave well.…
> anybody can buy esim on street(ask llm how to do so)
You can also get a physical SIM from tons of shops (corner shops, supermarkets etc) with no ID and cash lol
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why you got heavily downvoted. Yes, there are governments that are worse than European, but the decline of European government is the fastest. You may be surprised that the UK is the world leader in the number of people arrested because of internet posts. And that Germany, which is still way behind the UK, has more people arrested for the same reason than Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Belarus,…
The UK is not part of the EU, and its security services are barely affiliated with it. That all ended with Brexit. It's absolutely hopeless at protecting citizens from foreign threats. 95% of the arrests aren't actually arrests. The police send you a polite letter, you write a polite response, and at least 90% of the time the case is dropped. Compare with various authoritarian dictatorships where if the police turn u…
> 95% of the arrests aren't actually arrests. The police send you a polite letter, you write a polite response, and at least 90% of the time the case is dropped.
Bahaha, as if that's any better.
Guess cops showing up to your door for being mean to someone online is just an inevitability when there is no "second amendment" equivalent in said country.
Sad state of affairs, if they weren't british I'd almost feel bad.
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#176> Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation and Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation
Right-wing extremist and likely Russian asset.
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#177The authorities here (UK resident) are already pushing hard for as much authoritarianism as they can get. They are also increasing prison capacity and the two tier system is a genuine thing with public services collapsing. Police militarization, drones, army unit investigating private civilians, digital powers widening... I am more scared of the government than I am of local paramilitary forces at this point. It may…
Removal of Jury service for certain crimes says it all, seeing this happen in the wake of Palestine Action is considerably disturbing, if I were a conspiracy nut I'd argue these things are being done to please Israel.
> if I were a conspiracy nut I'd argue these things are being done to please Israel.
Or just someone who has at least 100 IQ
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#178The authorities here (UK resident) are already pushing hard for as much authoritarianism as they can get. They are also increasing prison capacity and the two tier system is a genuine thing with public services collapsing. Police militarization, drones, army unit investigating private civilians, digital powers widening... I am more scared of the government than I am of local paramilitary forces at this point. It may…
Irish unity will never happen. Not even sure where that came from. People can make random accounts named after Shrek making weird claims that immediately gets upvoted. The mass astroturfing you see everywhere on the internet now has made it shit.
"astroturfing is when a lot of people disagree with me"
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#179When government is corrupt, any activity that makes it easy for citizens to protect themselves can be described as hostile.
This is just a symptom of security services not doing the job tax payers pay them to do.
Like when foreign asset managers can influence government to create policies nobody voted for and make it the most important thing on the agenda? No a single arrest?
We are entering banana republic territory.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to think this is somehow specific to government. It is not. And, no, the market does not eventually destroy the organizations where it happens.
While perhaps not exclusive to the public sector, it undeniably happens WAY more often.
Source?