Exclusive: Ministers had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent
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#2I'm not surprised at all. A few months back it was revealed that the Army's information warfare unit was involved in monitoring lockdown critics.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/29/armys-informatio...
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#3From the article: “This is not what ought to happen in a free country.”
What do you expect from a country that's been a police state for the last 23 years or so.
With the introduction of the RIP Act in 2000, which compels those with encrypted data to divulge the keys, under penalty of imprisonment. From that, I could tell something had gone very wrong with our government, even back then.
The RIP Act opened the door to government policing of what information we are reading. Because you could no longer encrypt your data to hide it from the state's prying eyes. It was a watershed moment. And that point was where I could say the UK is no longer a free country anymore.
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#5>Many of the issues being raised were valid at the time and have since been proven to be well-founded.
No, they were not.
More evidence of the Fox-ification of the Telegraph, a once respectable source of news...
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#6Now all we need to do is police the dissent caused by the speech restrictions; and counteract it by having media voices repeat loudly and often that such concerns are based on (mis|dis|mal)information; and everything is fixed and everyone happy, right?
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#7From the article: “This is not what ought to happen in a free country.” What do you expect from a country that's been a police state for the last 23 years or so. With the introduction of the RIP Act in 2000, which compels those with encrypted data to divulge the keys, under penalty of imprisonment. From that, I could tell something had gone very wrong with our government, even back then. The RIP Act opened the door t…
Interesting to see what happens to the current campaign against encryption, in light of them trying to keep WhatsApp messages from an enquiry for the sake of their privacy.
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#8Surprise surprise, government can mobilise police/army to protect their citizens. Who would have thought.
Come on, no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus. The hysteria about government taking valid steps in an unclear situation is childish.
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#9I'm not surprised at all. A few months back it was revealed that the Army's information warfare unit was involved in monitoring lockdown critics. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/29/armys-informatio... https://archive.is/WkAqc
If anything, what surprises me is that it's able to be confirmed so specifically and confidently this soon.
At least in the U.S., the "public health emergency" "ended" less than a month ago!
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