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Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
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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