• Łumało [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Britons again with the most draconian laws you can possibly imagine. That wretched island has been nothing but a pile of the worst things and ideas humanity has to offer, and still it’s the “bastion of freedom” and part of the “free west”.

    What a joke. At least free software alternatives that make sense and can provide anonymity and privacy could possibly be free from such a backdoor, like SimpleX or something else.

    Well I wish best of luck to all Britons so that they may be safe. Especially trans people…

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      9 months ago

      Sometimes I feel like the UK is the West’s testing ground for all their worst ideas. Dump it in there, see what happens, then roll it out everywhere else.

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        9 months ago

        It’s the Orwellian fascism dev environment there, rolling out all the new privacy-killing tech and policy to squash the boot down on Britons a little farther each day. While the snoopers in the US and Australia watch with baited breath to see how much they will tolerate.

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      9 months ago

      We’ve all been using VPNs since they blocked torrent sites over a decade ago. Combine that with the government’s complete inability to execute on any tech related policy and it goes from scary draconianism to completely laughable.