They’re like kids trying to damn up the stream in the forest. They’re all enthusiastic at the start and then they realise the power of water and quickly give up. Still, for a few moments, it gives them a sense of control.
In what North Korean province is this ?
The UK is really battling to knock the US of the top of the fuckedest country list ain’t it
Our only saving grace is that we got rid of wildly dodgy boris johnson and then never voted him back in again. That’s it, that’s the best thing we’ve done in a looooong time.
The dodgy bastard is/was just as corrupt as the obese orange paedo but had the mental capacity to hide it better.
So that’s why they wanted out of the EU.
By that logic, it’s also a hostile activity to close the bathroom door when I’m taking a fat shit. Privacy isn’t just for criminals.
The response to “what are you trying to hide” is always “WTF do you need to see so badly?”
That one is easily rebutted by “Well, we’re looking for pedos. Won’t you think of the children? I bet you’re one of the pedos, aren’t you?”. And it, sadly, works on people.
Judging by what has come out regarding UK personalities and the Epstein files, they’re looking for whistleblowers who would denounce the pedos they have amongst their elites.
It could be considered biochemical warfare
I’m pretty sure my bathroom qualifies as a brownfield site
Completely off-topic but that article has the wildest transition to a segment selling you stuff in the “best VPN list” part I’ve ever seen.
Why is
#aside.hawk-rootin no blocklist yet?
I’m tired boss. This governmental fight against privacy all over the world is wearing down my willingness to be on the internet at all.
That’s what they want. The internet is open information and that jeopardizes the power of powerful people. Can’t be having that. So they’ll continue to try and break the internet until they get their way.
Now is a great time to invest some time and effort into offline hobbies, whether they be on your computer or otherwise. Limiting or eliminating your time online these days is just a straight net gain for your mental health, especially if you can fill that gap with some other fulfilling activity.
I am already self-hosting Matrix for my friend group. I suppose where just gonna move more and more stuff onto there. Doesn’t fix the issue, but you don’t have to go quietly.
I’m self hosting my own xmpp server. Feels good.
This year has been absolutely relentless. Got to be the worst year for privacy by far, and tech in general. Especially in the UK and especially these last few months. I will never forgive Labour for this. I know a lot of the legislation like the online safety act was passed by the previous Tory government but they were supposed to be an improvement, not come in and start immediately enforcing it to a greater extent than the Tories.
I don’t think there’s been a single week since the summer where I haven’t seen something that’s filled me with dread. I think it’s actually making me sick at this point
The politicians who wrestled back control of the Labour party through a campaign of smears with the help of Israeli-linked Jewish groups and who, immediately after that started at purge of any with dissenting opinions from that party, had more than demonstrated their love for Machiavelism, even before rising to Government purely on the back of the First Past The Post system and Reform splitting the far-right vote thus costing the Tories lots of seats.
Also, as others pointed out, this faction of Labour has long had an autoritarian strain, both in terms of the insane civil surveillance infrastructure they built last time they were in Government (as exposed by the Snowden Revelations) and their relentless weakening of privacy and even pretty basic legal rights.
This is really not surprising: the goose stepping into Fascism in the UK has started a while ago, it’s just that it’s a posh kind of Fascism wrapped in layers of deceit and disguised as “Rule Of Law”, unlike in places like for example Hungary were it was closer to the more traditional “strong-man with and iron-fist” Fascist image.
Oh I definitely agree, and I didn’t vote for them. However I was still cautiously optimistic when they won last year as I thought surely they have to be an improvement over the Tories? Turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong
Personally I had lost all hope on those fuckers as soon as I saw how they went after Corbyn.
Then again I was just an EU immigrant in the UK and left after the Leave Referendum because that was the drop and I lost all hope for the UK as a country (I kept up following UK subjects for a while, hence actually caring about the whole Corbyn thing, but that slowly tailed of after a few years)
In the years since periodically some news or other comes out of the UK that just confirms my decision to leave Britain as one of the best in my life.
PS: Also, full disclosure, I was a Greenparty member back in Britain, so I was always significantly left of New Labour and didn’t have a good opinion of them. Mind you, they still exceeded my expectations … on the downside.
Oof yeah I can’t blame you for leaving after that, I can’t imagine it made you feel particularly welcome! Things do seem to be getting worse and worse every year
This was very much the previous Labour government as well though - attempted ID cards, restricted what you could photograph or film, made it illegal to not disclose a password when asked by police and so and on
Yeah its been an affront on all sides. Privacy and freedom of expression is dying, unfortunately the majority of the population will only realise the levels of authoritarianism too late.
As long as they can still access TikTok and Instagram they probably won’t even care
Why wouldn’t you want the government to know every time you breath? What are trying to hide? /s
The UK has become a mockery of its own legal system. Even the current state in the U.S. respects common law more.
That’s a bold statement!
Make open protocols instead of apps!
You mean like Matrix ?
XMPP FTW
You know you can stand up your own Matrix-Synapse server as part of your home lab, its the “we have Telegram at home” answer.
