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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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[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 64 points 9 months ago

Man its like the UK is an authoritarian shit hole or something. Y'all need weapons and resistance. And no, I'm not American before someone asks.

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Curious, where are you from? I like it when people from other countries use y'all, especially when the apostrophe is in the right place 🙂

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

Im Canadian which I'll be the first to admit is basically American.

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

You guys better be careful. From what I've heard Canada and Australia aren't exaclty shining beacons of freedom as of late. Love you both tho

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Oh 100%. Shits pretty bad here at times. I'm moving out of country soon hopefully though.

[-] gianni@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Where to?

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

in the fallout universe the united states annex canada

[-] salvagedrifter@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Jus' so ya know, "y'all" pops up on my phone's autocorrect. I wouldn't reckon it's all that reliable of a metric, so don't go puttin' too much faith in it.

[-] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Heh, I see what y'all did there...

[-] endhits@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

This but unironically

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

No part of this was ironic I assure you.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yea I really do think.

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