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UK Gvmt Say Mask Wearing At Protests Will Soon Be Illegal (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"Protesters who wear masks could face arrest, up to a month in jail and a £1,000 fine under proposed measures that human rights campaigners claim are pandering to “culture war nonsense”.

Police in England and Wales will be given the power to arrest people if they are wearing face coverings at specific demonstrations, the Home Office has said."

Been a bad 18 months or so for privacy in the UK. Online Safety Bill passed, the right to take strike action curtailed, people in receipt of benefits (including disabled people) will soon (as from 2025) have their bank accounts open to the government, the right to protest curtailed and now this.

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[-] li10@lemmy.ml 153 points 9 months ago

I see no hope for this country. Things are just getting worse and worse every year, how long can this keep going?

It’s pretty bad now, but I seriously worry what things will be like in 20 or so years.

[+] soviettaters@lemm.ee -17 points 9 months ago

People hate on the US all the time, but the first amendment is very unique when you consider how other countries are curtailing people's right to protest, practice their religion, etc.

[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 9 months ago

An argument that might carry weight if you weren't setting up hotlines for people to snitch on anything or anyone vaguely LGBTQIA+, removing books from libraries, allowing huge orgs to buy political favour, enslaving people in for-profit prison systems etc etc etc.

[+] soviettaters@lemm.ee -35 points 9 months ago

Kids shouldn't be coerced into being gay.
Yeah lobbying sucks I agree
If people don't want to have to work in prison then they shouldn't commit crimes.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kids aren't being "coerced into being gay". That's a batshit statement right there.

Also, slavery is always bad. End of story. Putting any leeway in there is disgusting.

[-] Restaldt@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kids are not coerced in to being gay any more than geese are

Lobbying sucks

We are just ignoring the litany of false accusation and arrests of innocent people forced into modern legal slave labor?

Better hope you never piss off the wrong cop or can afford a good personally retained lawyer if you do

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

You aren’t very smart, are you?

[-] jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 9 months ago

For the crime of homelessness, you are sentenced to a just lifetime of servitude in a for-profit prison. So righteous.

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