• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      1 year 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.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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        1 year 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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      1 year 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.