Comment by doublerabbit
1 day ago
This was Brexits doing. As we are no longer EU, we have our own cool rules such as the upcoming PM allowed to watch me take a piss law.
1 day ago
This was Brexits doing. As we are no longer EU, we have our own cool rules such as the upcoming PM allowed to watch me take a piss law.
The EU is currently planning exactly the same thing with Chat Control.
Eu isnt 'planning' anything like that. Some Euparl MPs backed by people like Ashton Kutcher tried to push a law to spy on all chat apps. Then when the dirty web of American-style regulatory manipulation was exposed, they backed off. It was a proposal for a law by some MPs. Not something 'Eu' did.
They backed off "for now". They are trying this for ages, did you forget about ACTA and Von der Leyen's past censorship attempts in Germany? Have you read the DSA? Of course the EU is planning to go full authoritian in the name of "protecting democracy".
What EU is planning with chat control is much worse. The UK still requires a warrant to access your iCloud data. EU wants to force companies to install spyware on your devices that will monitor whatever you send or receive in real time without any probable cause or suspicion.
> This was Brexits doing.
Not really? We've had horrors like the 2000 RIP[0] well before Brexit. The Blair government made a huge dent in civil liberties and the Tories carried it on.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...
This is one of the reasons why I will never vote Labour.
The UK has always hated not allowing people to self-incriminate, though...
> This is one of the reasons why I will never vote Labour.
The Tories are generally worse. But I agree it's currently a case of "lesser of two evils".
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